Analysis Of Aint I A Woman By Isabella Van Wagner

Isabella Van Wagner is known for “Aint I a woman” speech given in Akron Ohio at the women’s rights convention given in 1851 on racial inequalities. There have been books written about her such as “Aint I a Woman” by bell hooks, Sojourner Truth: A life, a symbol by Neil Irvin Painter how she is represented as a woman that stood for Africana Womanism and she did not just stand up for women, and also men as well against the racial white supremacy, and her trails in slavery loosing a child due to forced labor, the sexual abuse she had to endure, from being forced to mate with an already married slave just to have kids for her slave holder. She is also known for being an abolitionist she joined the Northampton association of education and industry
This research will also provide a comparative analysis of literature that define Truth as a feminist versus her work to determine if she is an Africana womanist. Sojourner is of African descent which brings her to be well grounded strong and believes in a communal struggle where one-person struggle is not their own but everybody’s struggle no matter male nor female in the Africana perspective. Sojourner has made many contributions to the American equal rights movement in the nineteenth century her biography The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A bondswoman of Olden Time which she was assisted by her friend Olive Gilbert whom was an white abolitionist and William Lloyd Garrison she also has conducted speeches to tell her story of being enslaved to many people even though white supremacy gave her a hard time because she was a woman. Furthermore in the five peer reviewed articles that I have read and reviewed, the first one in sept 1994 painter wrote an article called Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth’s Knowing and Becoming Known, by going through the nineteenth century research system that people have wrote about her in published phases mainly white women and by examining truths used language, that is spoken or printed and the photos of her that represented a
The methods that the author Miriam Ma’ at-Ka-Re Monges uses is the African heritage, and the spirituality of the African traditions. The question that would follow the authors research would be what would is the cause of Isabelle changing her name to sojourner Truth and what I have found reading this article that the term Ma’at was represented as a goddess and a concept that was a system of defining one’s self through the infusion of spiritual energy. And which the goddess mainly Ma’at mainly represented to maintain cosmic order from the chaos; After Sojourner changed her name and then moved to new York joining the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1832 were she also became a traveling preacher is when sojourner found herself and became a strong Africana womanist activist for the Africana