Sojourner Truth's Ain T I A Woman

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In John Winthrop’s sermon, City on a Hill, he believed that Puritans must focus on their community and carry each other to prosper in the New World. When the Puritans fulfill their obligations, they will set the perfect community for all people to follow. Winthrop demanded that Puritans “must entertain each other in brotherly affection. [They] must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others’ necessities.” He urges them to bond as a community and all live simple lifestyles where everyone shared their burdens and happiness. They will eventually become the perfect community held together by love and charity and be dedicated to bonding within themselves and to God in order to achieve afterlife. In order to spread …show more content…

Truth expressed the hypocrisy of the white men by claiming, “Nobody helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or give me any best places! And ain’t I a women?” She used her personal experience to show the injustices that she faced and believed that she had the right to equality just like all the other women regardless of race, class and gender. Her rebuttal bluntly contrasts how woman should be treated with the reality evoking the audience to rethink the inequality that African American women are facing and take actions to end discrimination. Truth also uses reasoning to show her intellect by stating that, “Then they talk about this thing in the head; [Intellect] That’s it honey. What’s that got to do with women’s rights or Negro’s rights?” She makes an argument that rights has nothing to do with intellect and it’s completely logical because all humans were born equal whether one’s born wealthier or more intellectual. Even though her whole speech is very emotional, she values logic and reasoning to convince her audience that women are just as powerful and equal to men. Truth uses her personal experience to push for equality and convinced her audience by using logical reasoning in her

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