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: -What was the purpose of this speech? Truth was trying to persuade people that women, black or white, should be treated as equal to men. They should have rights just like men.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sojourner Truth delivers powerful speech on African American women’s rights. At the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention, on May 29, 1851, the formerly enslaved woman, Sojourner Truth, rises to speak and assert her right to equality as a woman, as well as a Black American.

Detailed explanation-4: -A former slave, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.