LAD #17

LAD #17

       At the Ohio Women's Convention in Akron, Sojourner Truth brings up to major injustices; sexist and raciel prejudices. Although she talks about how there has been some reform in the North for women's rights, she looks at the oppositiong to the reforms and attacks their logic by saying that although their are those who help women out of carriages, she her self has never been helped. "Ain't I a women?" she says most likely indirectly attacking that fact that thes people are also racist and don't see her as a 'lady'. In addition she defends her womenhood by citing examples of strengths as a women, and even talking about examples of strengths as a women that men do not have. She attacks the belief that women are less inteligent as mean and that even if that were true it shouldn't matter because respect should be universal.