LAD/Blog #18: Sojouner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" speech

In this moving speech, Truth exposes the reality of how she is treated and lives her life. she starts by saying how there are so many activist movements going on everywhere. So many people who want change.   She goes on to talk about Man's view on how women should be treated. That they "need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere." She does not get helped into carriages. hse does not get lifted over ditches. She does not have the best place everywhere. but "Ain't [she] a woman? why does she not get treated like a woman based on the color of her skin. She mentions how intellect has nothing to do with it, and dives in to the religious aspect of it. Stating how Christ came from a woman, she reinforces that women were given the power to turn the world upside down so women have the power to turn it right side up again and change it. Regardless of the color of their skin.