Summary of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman"
Sojourner Truth's speech begins by her explaining how white women are treated delicately and pampered in society. She questions why even though she is a woman too she is forced to work in the field and gets beaten. Her speech is very emotional as she talks about her struggles and asks why her 13 children were sold off to slavery. She argues that she deserves opportunity and education even if she isn't as smart as a white person or a man. She concludes by responding to the clergy who had claimed that women don't have the same rights because Jesus wasn't a woman. She reminded them that Jesus was born to a woman. She wants women to turn the world right side up again and warns men not to get in the way.
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