Ain't I a Woman? Theme of Injustice

We'll take Obvious for 500, Alex. Any speech on equal rights is going to address some kind of injustice.

"Ain't I a Woman?" was focused on the unfairness of coddling white women while condemning Black women to hard labor. The double standards in treatment only served to further hide Black woman from discussion of abolition and equal rights.

And Truth doesn't stop there. She also mentions that injustice of the inequality between white women and men—white women were deemed too dainty to involve themselves in political acts like voting but white men could vote.

Basically, injustice was everywhere you turned back in 1851.

1. Which of Truth's points focus on racial inequalities and which on gender inequalities? Are there any that overlap?
2. How did the tone of the speech help make Truth's points about injustice?
3. There are a bunch of other injustices from the first half of the 19th Century Sojourner could have also addressed. Would mentioning them have weakened her main points?

In less than three minutes, "Ain't I a Woman?" managed to remind the audience about both racial and gender injustices.

The passion Sojourner Truth felt about the injustice done to Black woman came through without condemning white women, making her argument all the more powerful.