Sojourner Truth's Speech 'Ain T I A Woman?'
Simple yet precise, Sojourner Truth’s speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?” brings to the foreground the issues that many of the White Anglo-Saxons females, purposefully or un-purposefully, overlooked during the fight for equality in the mid 1800’s.
Upon my first reading of this speech, I thought the message was clear: women are not treated as equals. However, as I read and reread the speech, I realized that Sojourner’s message is much deeper than the unequal treatment of all women. Her message is about the unequal treatment of the African-American women. And I agree with her whole heartedly. Throughout history the African-American women has been seen as a subordinate to their White female peers. When society talks about women and the Women’s Right movement,
Upon my first reading of this speech, I thought the message was clear: women are not treated as equals. However, as I read and reread the speech, I realized that Sojourner’s message is much deeper than the unequal treatment of all women. Her message is about the unequal treatment of the African-American women. And I agree with her whole heartedly. Throughout history the African-American women has been seen as a subordinate to their White female peers. When society talks about women and the Women’s Right movement,