Being a woman in the 19th century cannot be detached from one`s social class or race. A woman essentially was someone who was wealthy and thus would not need to ever have manual labor jobs. This quality disqualified poor women as well as black women from being ladies. What Truth and other women at that convention had in common was the female gender. They also had a lot of other differences in terms of identity. The convention solely focused on how to liberate those who were already considered women, and did not address race and class inequalities among women. However, it was necessary to bring the other identity into the discussion because many of the women were oppressed not only because they were females. Many of the participants` oppression
