In Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a Women" she addresses the unfair life style that she lives as a Black woman. She speaks of how she must work in the fields without any comfort and that her 13 children have been sold to slavery. She wishes to be educated regardless of what whites and men think of her incapabilities. She addresses the argument that women should have less rights because Jesus was a man by contradicting it with the fact that Jesus was brought into the world by a women. She says that racism and sexism are just about one and the same. She is different from white woman in only the regard of her color, and she is treated differently even then. She says the common gentleman is nothing but a hypocrite who won't help those who actually need it, and mentions that men would be nothing without women and their society wouldn't last a generation.
Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity and thought that first began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world and beyond. This relates to Truth's speech because she began to advocate for women equality and in the 1960's women all around the world began to too.
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