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LAD #17: Ain't I a Woman
Truth's speech is about women's rights and women's equality. Using her experience as a slave, Truth proves that women are just as capable of men and that they don't need to "be helped into carriages." She discusses how she has done the same work as men and born the same punishment as men. She also attacks the claim that women are not men's equal because Jesus was a man. She states that Jesus came from God and a woman and that men played no role in that whatsoever. She also empowers women by stating that if Eve can "turn the world upside down," then women can "turn it back." Her speech is a very concise, yet powerful argument for women's equality.
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This speech reminded me of Hillary Clinton, who showed another thing that women could do in running for president and winning the Democratic nomination, something I'm sure Soujourner Truth would have been proud of.
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