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Speech to the

Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851

Alex, John, JR, Martin, Oliver, Rowan

Summary

Sojourner Truth speaks about women’s rights. She compares the work she has done with the work that men do, and comes up with the conclusion that they both do the same. Sojourner argues that women are not given their rights out of fear that they may take more than is given to them. She also argues that if Eve caused man to sin. Why can't women be given the chance to fix their mistake. Sojourner ends with telling men that women are coming up with God because of all of the gifts they bring the earth, and only a few men are coming up with them.

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Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851

Background Information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-HfiryNoXY

Sojourner Truth

Main Points

  • Sojourner truth born around 1797 in new york
  • Sold at 11 years old for a flock of sheep for 100 dollars
  • Writes about her sexual abuse and beatings she got as a child
  • Fled master in 1926 1 year before abolitionist came into effect
  • Was a free women
  • Courage to challenge the legality to be sold into slavery was successful and got her son back
  • Fascinated by religion change name to sojourn of truth i
  • Join with the abolitionist
  • 1850 delivered her memories.
  • During civil war she meet Lincoln and she became a counselor and made black men join the union side in the war.

Literary Analysis

Literary Analysis

Sojourner Truth speaks about women’s rights. She compares the work she has done with the work that men do, and comes up with the conclusion that they both do the same. Sojourner argues that women aren’t given their rights out of fear that they may take more than is given to them. She also argues that if Eve caused man to sin. Why can't women be given the chance to fix their mistake. Sojourner ends with telling men that women are coming up with God because of all of the gifts they bring the earth, and only a few men are coming up with them.

Literary Techniques

They use allusion in the speech when they refer back to the bible multiple times. “I have heard the bible and have learned that Eve caused man to sin.”

Imagery when they talk of men and women's intellect “if woman have a pint and man a quart- why can't she have her little pint full?”

Literary Techniques

Citations

Truth Sojourner, “ Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature edited by Robert S. Levine et al. W.W. Norton, 2017

“Sojourner Truth.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 27 Jan. 2019, www.biography.com/people/sojourner-truth-9511284.(photo #1)

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