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Rhetorical Analysis Of Aint I A Women

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The tone of this speech is strong and passionate. The language is ebonex. Aint I a Women is measured as a critique of the leading misapprehensions, myths, and streotypes regarding African-American women that the white society has developed. It explains how racism, inequality, and white privelegd has gained the power of over African-Americans as a whole and it is time for an immediate change. This reading is written from an African-American women perspective, it examines the impact of sexism towards a African-American women during slavery.The definition of a women is someone who gets treated with the upmost respect but is less than a man. “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to …show more content…

Racism, inequality, and white priveldge was a top issue during slavery and still is today an issue. Sojouner Truth used personal experiences to get an emotinal response from her audience. She is connecting with both women of color and mothers as a whole. While explaining her experiences she repeates the rhetorical question in order to avoid conflicting arguments towards gender equality. She also paints an image of her equality to men by acknowledging her strengths and hard work ethics. “ I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!” …show more content…

With that being said if Sojounor could elaberate on the struggles she went through while raising her thirteen children in a racist and inequality era women and other races would understand more. A strategy she used to open the eyes of caucasian male in particular was the biblical examples. “He says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from?” (Truth). She explains that Mary gave birth to jesus with help from a man. This means both men and women were equaly put on this earth. There should not be a accusation that men are more than women because we are equal human beings. Although we may not look the same and our bodys work differently, we still have similar passions and workethics towards certain things. What is exciting about this work? This speech is exciting to hear during the time of slavery. African-American women would agree with every point argued. Even in todays society I still feel like African- American women are being treated less than a cacasian female and men in

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