unfathomable at the time. Society was not ready for a world without slavery. Still Truth saw it as the perfect opportunity for improvement, not only for slaves, but for women. Also, she knew that woman needed financial freedom before they could gain any respect.
"When we get our rights we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough in our own pockets; and maybe you will ask us for money" (Archives). Truth spoke what would be her most famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman” at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. She brought to the audience’s attention the need of conserving women’s fragility and dignity, singling out a male speaker at the convention. He proclaimed “women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere.” Contradicting this argument, she said “Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles or gives me any best place, and aren't I a woman?" (Campbell 100). Truth talked with regards to women’s rights in an effective manner that depended upon her own particular experience and instinct and upon an open-minded comprehension of human equality. Her religious thinking implemented her to approach biblical debates against women’s equality in a charming but intelligent way, as shown in this reply to a clergyman’s speech: “Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as Men, 'cause Christ wasn't a
woman. Where did your Christ come from? Where did he come from? From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him (Campbell 101). Sojourner Truth’s story has become an inspiration for other black feminists in their attempt to bring attention to the struggles that black women face. She encountered much danger and numerous assaults upon her life and nobility to advocate for her people and the cause she stood for.