Sojourner Truth's Ain T I A Woman

In Sojourner Truth’s speech, “Ain’t I A Woman,” she focused on how rights were very unjust, not only as a woman but also as an African American. In 1851 at the Woman’s Rights Convention located in Akron, Ohio, men were depreciating woman’s standards. Sojourner did not agree with what the men were saying and she stood up for the rights of all women. At the convention, one man had said that women needed to be helped into carriages and lifted over mud puddles. She is taken aback by the man’s comment and said, “Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?” Sojourner is irritated because she too is a woman and no man gives her the respect the other women get. She goes on and shows