Many people during this time period believed that men should do the tough labor work while women stayed home and performed household duties, but Sojourner proved this wrong. In her speech, she states, “ that man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and have to have the best place everywhere.” She also express that no one helps her into carriages, or over ditches, or gives her the best place, she does and gets everything on her own without the help of a man. Truth also says in, “ Ain’t I a Woman?” that she has ploughed, planted, and gathered into barns and no man assisted her. Overall, she is saying that she can perform the same work as men without their
Many people during this time period believed that men should do the tough labor work while women stayed home and performed household duties, but Sojourner proved this wrong. In her speech, she states, “ that man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and have to have the best place everywhere.” She also express that no one helps her into carriages, or over ditches, or gives her the best place, she does and gets everything on her own without the help of a man. Truth also says in, “ Ain’t I a Woman?” that she has ploughed, planted, and gathered into barns and no man assisted her. Overall, she is saying that she can perform the same work as men without their