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Rhetorical Analysis Of Sojourner Truth's Speech On Slavery

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Sojourner Truth’s speech acknowledges black men and black women as a whole but focuses on the empowerment of women and the rights they equally deserve. She talks about the lack of logic present in inequality. David Walker was born free, but was exposed to some accounts of slavery throughout his childhood. This could indicate that he didn’t fully understand or realize the things women endured within slavery. However, Walker viewed the slaves as a whole and not through intersectionality. He took a more radical approach and called for an immediate end to slavery, but was harshly criticized by some white abolitionists who wanted a gradual emancipation and feared that such radicalism would scare away potential supporters and even hurt the entire
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