“If women want any rights more than they’d got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it” (Sojourner Truth). Born in New York circa 1797, Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree. On 1851 in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth delivered a speech that would later be recognized as the speech that was delivered extemporaneously called “Ain't I A Woman? Truth delivered this speech to address her views on women's rights and to advocate equal rights of men and women everywhere. Her audience varied because it could’ve been people that felt her pain, white people that wanted to see how much of a fool she will make of herself and also males but also her audience would have been those who typically would
