Ain T I A Woman

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Ain't I A Woman

A black woman, Sojourner Truth states in her speech, “Ain’t I A Woman” ( 1851 ), how black women deserve the same respect as what white women get from the men, and how women deserve to be acknowledged for their work like men are. She supports her claim by first telling how white women are respected more by the men than how black women are. Then she explains how she does just as much work as the men do, but she doesn’t get the recognition she deserves. Finally, she supports her claim by telling how women in general don’t have a voice. Men do not listen to what they have to say and about their concerns. Truth’s purpose is to get men to show black women the same respect they give to white women in order to turn the world back around. She establishes a serious tone for each race so it isn’t one sided! Truth incorporates ethos throughout her speech, so it is more likely for her audience to listen to what she has to say.
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Where did your Christ come from? Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again”. This shows how men in general are not all that wise, how they believe that because God was all powerful and a man than that is how they should be too. However, they are not even close to being in the same category as Christ so their reasoning for women having no rights is already out the door. What Truth is trying to say is Christ made the first women and due to the actions she took along with a man changed life for everyone else. So that shows how men and women together formed this earth so together they can change it back to how it should be. Which is both men and women being equal no matter race they

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