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Ain T I A Woman
IFE ANAMONYE
ENG 102
PROF CAROLYN “Aint I a Woman”

In “Spfourner Truth, Ain’t I a woman” talk about the inequality black people face in American. During her time she faces discriminations as a black woman. In her speech she tells people about the way woman that suffers from their own form of discrimination. She said “woman needs to be helped in carriages lifted over ditches, and have the best place everywhere” (1-9). She was describing the way white man and woman treat a black woman during her time. She also said that “nobody ever help me into carriages or gives me a best place” (1-12). She was referring to the way she is being treated by white people who refused to help and accommodate her place to live.
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She was telling her audience in her speech that they need changing by treating everyone equally. She used rhymes in her speech “Aint I a woman” by telling her audience that she has right like other white woman also has right to equality. She used that rhymes to show how anger she was that she deserve right to equality. Sojourner said that she born like 13 children, that all her children was sold into slavery. After her suffering of her life by white people which nobody seems to care about her life Sojourner used biblical way to experience how she feels by responding that “A woman can’t have as much rights as a man because Christ wasn’t a woman”(1-32). She used biblical way to mention that a woman should stand as equal right as a man do to make the nation a better

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