LAD #17: "Ain't I a Woman?"

Sojourner Truth delivered her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at a women's convention in Ohio, 1851.  In it, she combines elements from being both an abolitionist and a women's rights advocate.  She explains how guys are always saying how they have to treat women with respect and be chivalrous, but no one ever has treated her like that.  She says she can do anything as good as a man, but just because she's a woman people do not take her seriously.  She believes that because she is black she does not get treated like the other women, but because she is a women she is treated even worse.  All in all it shows that there are more than one inequality in America at this, with Truth feeling the effects of both the unfair treatment of blacks and of women.