Sojourner Truth delivered this speech in December of 1851 at a Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. She begins by talking of what the man thinks women need. They think women need aide in getting into carriages and being lifted over ditches; however, she does not receive that treatment. She declares that she works as hard as a man does, and she can eat as much as a man can, and she can bear as much a man can. She has had 13 children and had to experience the pain of selling them off. After each of these statements she asks "and ain't I a woman?" She wonders what intellect has to do with equal rights. She mentions that without women there would be no men. All people, white or black, male or female, should be equal.
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