Rhetorical Analysis Of Ain T I A Woman

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a person that was seen as “weak”? What about as property? Sojourner Truth delivered her speech “Ain’t I A Woman” that addresses those two issues at a Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio during 1851. After several men spoke about how they thought women should be treated, Truth spoke about her experiences as a woman and how she was treated differently because she was an African-American woman. Essentially being an advocate for both African-Americans and women. Sojourner was able to do the things men could do just as well, and there should not have been a debate on whether or not women should have the same rights as men. During the time period that this speech was made African-Americans were seen as property, not people, and women were just seen as arm candy that didn’t have the ability to think for themselves. First, the men claimed that women needed to be treated a certain way, like being helped into carriages and carried over ditches, but Sojourner Truth counterclaims this argument with how she was a woman yet men never treated her that way because she was African-American. Truth says, “That man …show more content…
As Sojourner Truth says in her speech, “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.” She uses the same Christian theology that the men used to back up their claims in order to support her counterclaim against the misogynistic views of the men. Essentially, if the first woman God made, Eve, was able to make such an impact on the world, then a group of women should be able to make a much larger impact with all the things they could do and