Public activist and movement leader, Sojourner Truth, in her speech “Ain’t I a woman” (1851) argues intensely that women and especially black women are being treated wrong and unfair and that things need to change. She first supports her claim by providing an example of how she is not being treated fairly and a metaphor showing that. Then she talks about how slavery is wrong and how it has affected her and finally she talks about how blacks and women alike are looked upon as not as smart, or as skillful as white men. She then provides an example of how what the men say are wrong and proves herself right. Rights purpose is to show that women are just as good as men and deserve to be treated equally and fairly. She speaks with a very serious and somewhat annoyed tone for the people of America. …show more content…
In the passage, she says “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place!”. This show that even though society speaks of treating women fairly and like a princess, she has been treated no differently than anybody else. She then provides information that supports the fact that blacks are treated to be less than those of the white skin color and between that and the fact that she is a woman her life is not all that people make it out to