Critical Analysis of Ain’t I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth, a woman who was born into slavery in 1797, Isabella Baumfree, who
later changed her name to Sojourner Truth, would become one of the most powerful advocates
for human rights in the nineteenth century. In 1827 her master did not fulfill his promise to set
her free, and then she went away and said that she did not run away but went in broad daylight
and this is her right. In 1851, women’s Rights convention was held at Akron: Truth accepted to
attend the debate and delivered the speech, Ain't I a woman? The center argument of Truths
speech is that women also have the right and power to achieve and do what men can do and the
ability to change the world into a better place, therefore, women also deserve the right to vote.
Truth relies on evidence, proofs, and rhetoric appeals to convey her massage and to persuade the
audience into understanding her massage, and she supported her words more when she spoke
about Christ and said (Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from?
From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him) This had a strong impact on the
audience.
Truth uses logos to persuade the audience that they must reconsider their concept of
women. To emphasize that women are responsible and can do what men do, she shared her
personal experience of a difficult life. She says no one ever helps her into carriages or
mudpuddles or gives her a better position. She uses her experience to demonstrate that women
are stoning the audience and to make men rethink their claims against women. Alongside
Reality, by providing several examples from her life as she was an enslaved woman, she used
repetition to catch the audience's attention: she repeated the question, Ain't I a woman? In order
to highlight her point four times. She often uses repetition when she replied to one of the crowds
“from where did your Christ come? “To illustrate that women are especially important in relation
Sojourner Truth, a woman who was born into slavery in 1797, Isabella Baumfree, who
later changed her name to Sojourner Truth, would become one of the most powerful advocates
for human rights in the nineteenth century. In 1827 her master did not fulfill his promise to set
her free, and then she went away and said that she did not run away but went in broad daylight
and this is her right. In 1851, women’s Rights convention was held at Akron: Truth accepted to
attend the debate and delivered the speech, Ain't I a woman? The center argument of Truths
speech is that women also have the right and power to achieve and do what men can do and the
ability to change the world into a better place, therefore, women also deserve the right to vote.
Truth relies on evidence, proofs, and rhetoric appeals to convey her massage and to persuade the
audience into understanding her massage, and she supported her words more when she spoke
about Christ and said (Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from?
From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him) This had a strong impact on the
audience.
Truth uses logos to persuade the audience that they must reconsider their concept of
women. To emphasize that women are responsible and can do what men do, she shared her
personal experience of a difficult life. She says no one ever helps her into carriages or
mudpuddles or gives her a better position. She uses her experience to demonstrate that women
are stoning the audience and to make men rethink their claims against women. Alongside
Reality, by providing several examples from her life as she was an enslaved woman, she used
repetition to catch the audience's attention: she repeated the question, Ain't I a woman? In order
to highlight her point four times. She often uses repetition when she replied to one of the crowds
“from where did your Christ come? “To illustrate that women are especially important in relation
