Growth in America Throughout America’s history, there has been documents and speeches by many different people. Some of these speeches talk about problems that America has had or the author’s point of view on what needs to be done to better America. America today is much different from back then, but we have lived up to some of the expectations mentioned in those documents. Others, however; we have not. The speeches and documents that I will be talking about in this essay come from the book called, Essential American Documents and Speeches, Volume One and Two. The first document I have chosen is called “Ain’t I A Woman” by Sojourner Truth. In this document, she talks about woman’s rights and slavery. She said in her speech, “I have as much muscle as any man, and can so as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?” By saying this, she is telling us that we need to give women more rights because they can so just as much as men can. Back then, women didn’t have many rights, and were treated very differently than men, but over the years we have gotten better. Women are still treated somewhat differently, but they do have a lot more rights than they had before. She also says, “You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, - for we can’t take more than our pint’ll hold.” Many people may have been scared to give us as much freedom or the same rights as men in fear that we
