Sojourner Truth
In the essay "Aren't I Woman?" Sojourner stresses the main points she is trying to make as an African-American Female. Sojourner talks about how African-American women were treated the complete opposite from Caucasian women as far as daily living. What I mean by daily living is shopping, asking for things, being helped into carriages, being helped over dirty ditches and eating in the best places. She also talks about how her master treated her as if she had special treatment. She releases her anger by saying I have plowed, planted and gathered into barns and your saying I'm not good enough. I work just as hard as a man; even harder and your saying I'm still not good enough. I bear the lash and eat just as much and I'm still not good enough. Sojourner is trying to prove everything a black woman can do maybe even more then a man and she is asking who ever is listening, "Aren't I A Woman?".I feel as though Sojourner is presenting more then two points of view that are very important and......
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