Sojourner Truth: Ain T I A Woman

Sojourner Truth, known also as Isabella Baumfree, had a powerful determination and ambition for the future of colored women. She demanded to be identified as a woman and not to be determined not women by the color of her skin. “Ain’t I A Women” was delivered in front a women’s suffrage convention in 1851 in front white women who didn’t know how it was to be discriminated by the color of their skin. Yet she impacted the movement of women’s rights and racial inequality.

Colored people have been discriminated all the way since the first slaves in 1619 and children and women have been put down as useless for the most part. In the last part where she says, “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them”, Sojourner Truth got across to me if one women had the power to turn the world upside down and now with all the women in the world, we have a great opportunity if we speak out and push our limits to let us impact the world. She spoke with truth.

Sojourner Truth possessed great courage after being born into and enslaved for more than half her life,

It was recently that they were honoring the day America became free, as Fredrick Douglas said it our celebration not his. As he mentions in his speech was the declaration of freedom even extended to them or did their freedom contain limits. Just as the Constitution said all men were free but yet there was still underlying captivity of slaves. Independence Day was a mask for the federals to forget the inexcusable moments that occurred with slaves and their freedom. This is what Fredrick Douglas expressed through his speech; it was not to make Americans look down upon their country, but for the ones who were involved in the actions of hostility towards