An Argumentative Essay's Ain T I A Woman?

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Ain't I A Woman?

For many hundreds of years, many women have made an effort to aim for gaining equality with men. They have been held back and their opportunities taken away from them because of the fact that they were women. Feminism is the belief in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. It is the feminist movement that has been trying to give these rights to women who have the disadvantage of their equality and privileges that men have never given them.

It started in 1619 a proposal to give women an equal portion in colonial lands is rejected by the Virginia House of Burgesses (Cunnea 1). Sojourner Truth gave the speech to address her views and thoughts of women's rights. Also to advocate equal rights of men and women …show more content…

She shows how physically capable she is, and proves once more her equality to men and again invokes sympathy and credibility by tacking on how she did all this amid limited access to food and the real threat of physical abuse. She proposes the idea that if these women all work together, there is no reason that they should not achieve what they are looking for.

The argument Truth made is that women do not possess the same intellect as men. In Sojourner Truth words, “women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from?”Sojourner Truth claims that men are lying, and in fact, they don’t help women. Women are just as capable as men and should have the right to vote.

A strong connection to the audience is made to show that racism and sexism is happening everywhere, though men are denying it. It also references what men say about women. “Women need to be helped into carriages… and have the best place everywhere” (Truth 1). Sojourner empowers them through the repetition of the profound rhetorical question “ ain’t I a woman?” She is keep repeating that statement because it states her belief in her own deserving right to equality. She wanted to say that she, as a woman, can do as much work as

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