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 are still important today. One is Women's Rights, another is African-American Rights, and the last is Slavery. All three issues were very important and still are important in today's societies. I also feel as though she is contradicting herself because first she says she should be helped everywhere she goes because she is a female and then she complains when she gets special treatment because she is a female.I believe that the question of the matter is not whether Sojourner repeats a question, or we pay attention to her question. Independently of what the question means, or what the person asks, the fact of the matter is that we are what we are, and not (NEVER) what others want us to be or become. The hard part is to get the strengths to defend our belief and never give in to the desires of the others. It is this particular belief of mine which leads me to think that there is no crime worst than the theft of identity. Women and not

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