Truth Sojourner Truth: Women In Slavery

“I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.” Truth Sojourner, who used to call Isabella Baumfree, became one of the major powerful spokeswomen for human rights in the nineteenth century. On her young age, she owned by a Dutch American called Colonel Johannes Hardenberg in New York. Like other slaves, she was mistreated and got abused. She was obligated to marry a man called Tomas, with whom she had five children. In 1827 when her owner failed to keep his promise to set her free or to approve the New York Anti-Slavery law, she ran away, and letter told her master, “I did not run away, I walked away by daylight…” After a while, she became an itinerant preacher. During this period she became involved in the growing antislavery movement,

and by the 1850s she has participated in the woman’s rights movement as well. Sojourner Truth became well known by her famous speech at women’s convention on May 29, 1851, in Akron, Ohio. Her speech recognized as one of the most famous abolitionists and women’s rights speeches in American history “Ain’t I a Woman?” She persisted in speaking out for the rights of African Americans and women during and after the Civil War.
At that time, people were beveling male are dominant over women, and she spoke against male superiority over women. Although she was not respected while she was a slave even after that, she spoke that women deserve respect and care. She believed that women need to be active in their society by coming out of the situation hinder them. She mentioned different points that women are not inferior to men. She made a strong point by utilizing biblical references, and her experiences. Truth institutes an authoritative and strongly inspired tone. She shows how women were worthy of the respect and deserved to earn the same rights as men. She was so courageous in her speaking that it has been said at a conference one man proclaimed, there is no way this could be a woman because only a man can speak like that. She truly believes that women should get equal right and privilege like men.
She was speaking by using English which was not quite what one would call standard. It revealed that her ability of speaking does not come from schooling, but from experience. She expressed her feeling of confusion about the truth she lived in and the things she hears. She listed examples that she felt contradicted each other. "Men said women are too delicate; they must overprotect." This idea was opposite to the conditions she confronted while she was a slave. No man did not help her and did not even give her any place. She was telling men that they are lying. Even though they said a woman needs care, they did not respect it. She said that “man did not help her into carriages, man did not lift her over ditches,” and man did not give her any best place. She interrogated them by saying, “Ain’t I A Woman?”
At one point, she opened her sleeve to show off her muscles; this was to prove that she is capable of doing things that man do. By comparing a woman to men, Sojourner Truth describes how the life of a woman in slavery looks. Across the speech, Truth discussed how women could never have the rights as a man had. She expressed her experience of being an enslaved woman who has "plowed and planted" crops in a field of a man's work. She compares herself to man by expressing how she could work and eat as much as a man could. The primary idea of contrasting herself with men was to explain that woman is just as efficient in doing a man's job
Furthermore, to address the logic of the audience she intelligently yet humorously uses examples from the Bible. She described how “Christ came from God and woman and men nothing to do with that.” Some people thought that men are superior to a woman because Jesus is a man. She disproves this belief by explaining man did not contribute anything in Christ birth. She also points out Eve as an example, “God made Eve strong enough to turn the world upside down, so why could not all the women now turn it right side up.” She was pointing out that if all women work together, they could be able to turn their situation. Many associates of her audience also attached with her message intensely. She spoke about having to watch her children sold into slavery. It must have attracted to any mother in the crowd because if they think of themselves being in that position, they will sympathize with her. By using specific examples, she made her message more personal. At another point, she called a member in the audience honey. She was speaking to the audiences like she was their friend, and it made the audience to fell clause to her. The way she expressed her experiences and spoke brought everyone to conclude that everything she said was right.
In her speech, "Ain't I a woman," Sojourner Truth engaged a sad tone to speak to women in slavery through the use of appeal to emotion and resemblance of comparison to men, to persuade women in slavery that you could do as much as a man could do.

Having children does not mean that women hindered from doing things. She speaks for herself and other women that have born children in slavery. She wants to address women's emotion because a man does not understand how women feel when her children sold into slavery. “No one could hear a mother's grief because no one feels the pain but women and God."

Sojourner by speaking wisely and boldly she addressed unfair and moral inaccuracy of gender and race discrimination. Her way of description about the injustices occurring at that time was valid and was successful to create a desire for change in Africa American woman’s heart. By reading her speech text, it is easy to realize that she was very emotional full of anger and sadness. The most important thing is she tried to provoke each of her audience so they can realize that they have to fight, now or never. Through her words, we can feel her energy, her anger, and her invitation to join her

fight.
Truth’s speech is still initiating black woman to fight for their right their voice to heard. On July 19, 2017, in Sacramento, more than 1,500 people were gathered on the street to participate in woman’s right march. The name of the march driven from Sojourner Truth’s famous Ain’t I a Woman speech. The black women’s rights march arranged in response to the “the overwhelming whiteness.” The Women’s March in Washington point out more of issues that black women faced. The power apparent in such gatherings calls to mind the concluding words of Truth’s speech: “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! Moreover, now they are asking to do it, and the men better let them.”
Sojourner Truth’s speech became highly influential and wildly popular and still well known to this day. Without any education background with simple tactics such as repetition and rebuttal, she can confirm herself to her audience as a reliable source use emotion to draw them into her situation and then provide reasonable evidence as to why many commonplaces against women are wrong. Truth overcomes her social boundaries and uses it to the advantage of herself other African Americans and other women to try and better her country Sojourner Truth lives today in different layout; as a person, as a role model, and as a legend. Sojourner’s story is the ultimate American story.