QuestionSojourner Truth, an abolitionist born into slavery until her 1826 escape, gave a powerful speech at he Women's Rights Convention in Ohio in 1851. It has been titled "Ain't I a Woman" and translated many different ways. Here is a 1863 transcription by Frances Gage, who includes Truth's Dutch accentAnd raising herself to her full height, and her voice to a pitch like rolling thunder, she asked, "And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! (and she bared her right arm to the shoulder, showing her tremendous muscular power). 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 de lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' 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?" . . .In Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I am Woman'' how does she demonstrate the loss of humanity that existed for her?

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