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Sojourner Truth

Ain't I a Woman?
An Analysis of speech by Sojourner Truth
Laurelle Stephens
Com.2204, Semester 2
Dr. Showell
April 9, 2007





Being a Woman is powerful. Being an African-American woman is even more powerful Ain't I a Woman is a speech by Sojourner Truth. This speech is very in lighting to many women of color. For women of color to be noticed is something Sojourner thought was important. Women's and Negros rights is something positive and that should be looked upon and that's how Sojourner saw it.
To give a brief history about the person who wrote the speech I was assigned. Isabella Baumfree was born in 1797, in Ulster County, New York. Isabella was one out of thirteen children of Elizabeth and James Baumfree. Isabella was sold to slavery at first at the age of nine and many times again after that. Most people know Isabella as Sojourner Truth which she changed on June 1, 1843. Sojourner was not only an abolitionist but a writer also who wanted to be heard......


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