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Analysis Of Sojourner Truth's Speech 'Ain T I A Woman'

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Sojourner Truth was a charismatic woman that stood for human equality and women’s rights. This was a sensitive subject that made Truth very emotional and she was dedicated to hinder the matters that were unjust. Throughout her life, she experienced nothing but turmoil and discomfort but somehow she was still able to manage her slave-like lifestyle and still hold on to her morals, values, and spiritual belief. In her speech, “Ain’t I A Woman,” Truth relies on details of her hardship and experience to create a tone of passion, seriousness and inspirations through the use of slave imagery. While conducting research on Truth, I discovered that she was born to the name Isabella “Belle” Baumfree and later I will discuss the background and reasoning of the name she chose to take as Sojourner Truth and how she became a historical figure.
(PASSION)In Truth’s speech, “Ain’t I A Woman”, Truth expresses how much regard she had towards black women being neglected in talks of being in bondage and not having certain rights. Early in her life, she didn’t have a pleasant experience of childhood. She was born as into slavery and lived with this condition until her early adulthood. It was not until she …show more content…

The fact that she was treated and whipped, just as a man, sets the seriousness of her tone and bring out her brutal honesty in questioning why women still don’t have the same rights. Truth words and movement was so strong that during a stage play emphasizing her life, her moral example changes the mindset of a gang of boys intent on burning the canvas pavilions at a revival (Snodgrass). In this instance she was viewed by others as a leader and had touched those individuals intending to do harm in a spiritual manner causing them to not to want to put others in danger. Her lifestyle influenced others to stand for what they believed in and mostly for what is

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