Sojourner Truth's famous speech "Ain't I a woman" takes a look at the irony of man's chivalry towards women while women in slavery get no respect. Sojourner had suffered through many painful and trying ordeals and did not receive any respect or pity from men. She repeatedly asked "ain't I a woman?", wondering why she did not get chivalry. She also countered the argument that women were not strong enough or smart enough to be equal to men because Christ was not a woman, by saying Jesus was born of God and a women, no man ever played a role in his creation.
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| Susan B. Anthony was also a suffragist and abolitionist. |
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