USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -At the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women’s rights speeches in American history, “Ain’t I a Woman?” She continued to speak out for the rights of African Americans and women during and after the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-2: -A former slave, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century.

Detailed explanation-3: -The speech is in fact printed in the newspaper article supplied here. It is impossible to convey the effect Sojourner Truth’s speech had on the audience. Technically, the speech wasn’t written down, so that makes it difficult to transfer as well, but that fact is not supplied in the text itself.

Detailed explanation-4: -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! And now they is asking to do it. The men better let them.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two versions of Sojourner Truth’s speech at the 1851 Women’s Right Convention in Akron, Ohio, have been published.