Aren T I A Woman Analysis

Aren’t I a Woman? Was written by Sojourner Truth in 1851. The purpose of this speech was to shock people and make them realize the what's really happening to the black people in America and how the women are being treated in America. There seems to be a lot of talk between people but they fail acknowledge see the true unjust that is going on and worry about trivial matters in the society instead. This why the speech was given, to paint a picture that two major groups are being grossly left out of important conversations that are not even happening. This speech was given at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron Ohio. Her immediate audience is women and feminist, to them she uses the speech not only as a rallying point in which she shares her injustices with those who share a commonality but she also uses them as a sympathy vote in when she asks “aren’t I a woman?” she connects with them on a deeper human level to try and share her experiences and pain that she has witnessed and gone through herself to people may not have understood
In the speech she adresses the crowd as children which could be applying credit to herself because children are widely un educated on topics and have to taught. That could her her uniting their roles for the entirety of this speech, and it is not an insult, it just means they do not know but are also open and eager to learn. In the speech she repeats the title; ain’t I a women? This is spread out in the speech after each point that highlights an injustice she has endured to emphasise that this is not how black women should be treated because earlier she already excluded white women from this by bringing up phrase when introducing things that are expected for women get or have. Such as being helped into carriages or put in the best