Please view the video below and consider the following questions in respect to Sojourner Truth and values/ beliefs she advocated for communities (class, gender, and race):
- According to the speaker, who determines what is just? What is fair? Consider, class, gender, and race.
- Is justice fair? Include specific examples from the speech.
- Think about her speech, why does justice sting? Why are the individuals/ family members speaking out? Explain
- What is the reality of justice? (personal opinion)
- What factors interfere with the path of justice?
- How or does each speaker/ individual consider equity, equality, and liberation?
Ain't I a Woman? " is a speech, delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth, (1797–1883), born into slavery in New York State. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker. Her speech was delivered at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio, on May 29, 1851, and did not originally have a title.