Aren't I a Woman response

Sojourner Truth wrote a fantastic speech. She included lots of detail and emotion to approach her argument. The most shown element was ethos. She has a lot of credibility due to her being a slave and can vouch for basically anything.

One specific line that she spoke really helped to establish ethos with the reader. "I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me-and aren't i a woman(Truth Lines 12-14)? She starts off by stating that she was actually a slave. She did everything there was for a slave to do. She even topped some of the men that were working there. But the she breaks it down into "Aren't I a Woman. All of these listed qualities would say that maybe she was a man. But no one said that woman couldn't also do these tasks. So for men to say that because she did do these things that she would not be classified as a woman. That is not very right for a man, most likely a white man at that to say something like that. Now if it being that she was black and slave to which she is not being accounted for as a woman then one could slightly understand because slaves were looked at differently. But that doesn't mean that a woman is not a woman and a man is not a man. Her position as a slave has a lot of power in her credibility to speak on this because she isn't being treated very fairly and wants to see a change.

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.(Truth lines 5-7). This statement really enraged Truth. She being a woman,which no one excepts her as, can honestly say that that is a very genuine and the act of only a true gentlemen. But when you are not given these things that makes you think otherwise."Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud paddles or gives me any best place, and aren't i a woman"(Truth lines 7-10). This is now when she becomes furious. She does not receive the same type of respect that another woman would receive. Maybe it is her skin color. Maybe it is her lack of being slavery free. Or maybe it is her strong muscles and manly figure. Either way she should not be stripped of her womanhood based on skin color, slavery, nor body tone. She has a right to say what she says and is very credible and knowledgeable for her argument.

So when she stated that she felt repressed of her own rights as a woman, she's right. No one should be noted as just a being and not a man or woman. If that is what they feel they want to do then behold the wrath of Sojourner Truth.