Ain't I a Woman?

One of the most inspirational people that inspired me was Sojourner Truth. Sojourner Truth was a self-given name to Isabella Baumfree. She was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. She was born into slavery but escaped with her daughter in 1826. Her best known speech what really inspires me in “Ain’t I a Woman?” It was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.

            Her speech was mainly saying all the things that she does as a woman that white women also do. So doesn’t that make her a woman? One of my favorite parts was when she said this: “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?” She said that she could work and eat as much as a man and when she could get it, she could even bear getting whipped by the lash.

            In my opinion she has proven herself to be a woman and she deserves the same rights as we do. She even works harder then we ever would and we get the right to vote and she doesn’t? Now I know what I side I am on but she makes a good point and I believe she should be heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsjdLL3MrKk