LAD #17- Ain't I A Woman Speech

Sojourner Truth made her speech at a Women's Convention in Ohio in 1851. She talks about how the white man says that women are delicate and need help with tasks such as getting into carriages and crossing mud puddles. She wonders aloud "Nobody ever helps me into carriages...ain't I a woman?" She had thirteen children, all sold to slavery to bear her pains. The word "Intellect" is raised and she talks about how she has very little rights compared to whites and women alike. She argues that women, like man, came from Christ and should therefore have just as many rights as man does. All women should band together, dor if they do, they would have the power to change the world for the better.