An Analysis Of Sojourner Truth's Ain T I A Woman

As one can see in the speech given by Sojourner Truth in 1851, “Ain’t I a Woman”, she believes that women’s right and, even more specifically, African American women’s right are extremely important. In her speech presented in Akron, Ohio, she takes numerous points of her opponents and finds counterclaims to rebut them. She uses points such as how she has been treated compared to how other women have been treated, the lack of intelligence the men assume she has, and she even poses the question of where Christ came from to rebut one of their points. While addressing these topics she uses a very clever strategy, of taking the arguments against her, to make the point of how they would are irrelevant. As the reader can see, Truth makes excellent points in her speech, “Ain’t I a Woman”, to make her point clear.
Because she is an African American woman, which can be concluded from her statement in paragraph two, “I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery”, she is treated much worse than the white women. She is never catered to, or helped out; instead, she is out in the fields ploughing, …show more content…
However, Sojourner Truth uses the audience’s assumptions to her advantage by pointing out that if she does not have the ability to be as smart as them then why not let her learn what she can. She states in paragraph three, “…What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?” By addressing their point in her argument she shows how they are being unfair and the flaw in their plan. She knows that if they were to let the women and the African Americans go to school and learn they would realize how things should be, causing things to be more