LAD/Blog #18: Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" speech

During the 1800's white women were treated with respect, as they were helped into carriages and carried over puddles.  Black women, on the other hand, were not offered any help.  They were treated just as poorly as men.  In her "Ain't I a Woman" speech, Sojourner Truth argues that, even if her intellect is less capable than a white's or a man's, as whites and men claim, doesn't she still deserve to be taught regardless? She ends by saying that all women should be treated equally, and that "the men better let them".





Sojourner Truth's speech reminded me of Emma Watson's speech at the United Nations because both pursued equality for women and equal rights.