Logos

Sojourner Truth was obviously emotional about her topic (hmm: wonder why?!), but her major rhetorical style was cold, hard logic.

Her whole point was Black women were not considered as equal to Black men or white women in activist work, but that life proved otherwise. After all, she'd worked (and been punished) just as hard as a man:

I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? (9-12)

She'd also been treated differently than white women…who were treated with sexiest deference:

Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? (5-6)

There you go, folks: a couple of powerful statements exposing the fact that Black women were treated unequally. Truth used her own experiences to exposing holes in both the logic of the programs for change and in the restrictive, messed-up status quo.