Assignment 4 - Ain"t I a woman?

This poem is writen by Sojourner Truth. The puropse of this poem is to convince people that women should start to have the same right as men. The theme of these poem was about injustice between black and white and how men treated them. Her experiences as a black woman in America provided her with the understanding to speak on the subject at hand. Sharing more about herself and her life helped her listeners to associate with her identity, and allowed them to imagine themselves in her shoes. The  verses that attract my attention is  ”I have born thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"  This verses allows most women to identify with the loss of a child due to slavery. The woman feel connected to the pain and agony of loosing their own kids.  I think that this is unfair thing because the pain that the women feel for their children is to big  and noone can imagine how a mother feel ,nobody cared about when she was cying for her children.Also, many people felt touched because everyone has lost a loved one, and at that time, most of them were lost because of slavery. According to Sojourner Truth the message of the poem is that everyone should  treated equally and to inform that women are as strong as men and maybe even stronger.