And Ain't I a Woman? Reflection

Sojourner Tuth spoke to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention talks about the inequality among women and the African American women. She see the white women fighting for freedom and inequality towards men and wants to fight with them for her rights as a women. The African American women not only have to fight for their rights as women but also for the rights of Afrcian American slaves. "I could work as much and eat as much as a man- when I could get it- and bear the lash as well" (Truth). Truth believes that she can do anything that a man can and is just as equal as him and deserves to have the equal opporunities as any man. The separation of the women is also something she sees as wrong and wants them to unite together to form a stronger bond and revolt against the issue of equality together. "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again" (Truth)! This is a perfect example of her idea of how God wanted saw the woman as a strong figure who can turn the world around and make a true difference. Emerson and Thoreau were pro womens rights because of their beliefs in the people controling their world and working to help themselves and win their rights against the government. "But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society"(Grant). They know that the men control the government and the laws and the social position of many people. Emerson and Thoreau knew that the government was holding both the women and the slaves back and prevent them from doing what they wanted to achieve in life. Truth wanted a chance at a better life and to success in America were the pursuit of happiness was everyone's rights.

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