Ain T I A Woman Analysis

"Ain't I a Woman?," by Sojourner Truth, not only brings to light slavery, but also how racism can blur the lines between gender roles and can affect the treatment of people from different races. She uses the stance of being a woman to prove her stance that it is her skin, not her gender that causes her to be treated differently. She points out that men state that "women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place ever," but because of the color of her skin no man offers to help her into carriages, especially since she does not get the opportunity to ride in them. Also neither does any man help her over puddles, rather she works beside other slaves, never mind the weather. As a black woman there …show more content…
She even points out that " she can eat just as much if not more than a man," even though women were considered to be delicate. She points out basically that if she had been a white woman to rather than a black one, men would be more apt to treat her as a lady instead of property. The most fascinating part of this speech is the fact that she points out that Jesus " came from God and a woman, and that man had nothing to do with that." She points out that men think of women as inferior, but because there was no distinction between gender and race for blacks, women were able to prove that not only were they able to be equals to men, they could in fact themselves be able to be superior. In her eyes, as a woman, if one woman (Eve) could bring the world into destruction and sin, then women who sought change together had the power to affect change. This speech brings to light the plight of women particularly, in slavery. during this time period women were not expected to raise a hand in work, however this speech shows that that was not always the