LAD #17: Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech

Sojourner Truth begins her speech by stating that all the talk of women's rights and abolition is surely to cause a ruckus amongst the hierarchy of white men. She states though  "But what's all this here talking about?'. The white man supposedly is to cater to the woman so that she is comfortable, but Truth has never had such an experience. She has had to live the life of slave hard at work and has borne many a children. Still though, through all this she asks "Ain't I a woman" because she is still seen as nothing more than a Negro. All these women are seeking for equal rights with man, but Truth is still searching for her own equal rights among her own sex. She says that intellect has nothing to do with it, whether true or not, only that women and blacks may have their chance too. She believes there is no reason for women or blacks to be subordinate and they should strive not to be. Amusingly, she ends her moving speech by stating she has nothing more to say.