An Analysis Of Sojourner Truth's Ain T I A Woman

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In 1851 at the Women’s Right Convention in Ohio, Sojourner Truth gave an outstanding speech about women’s rights to an audience of men and women alike. It was a short, but masterful oration and is still referenced to this day. This iconic speech was named “Ain’t I a Woman?” One of the reasons Truth’s speech was so influential was due to her ability to utilize the modes of persuasion, Logos, Ethos, and Pathos throughout her work. For example Truth applies Logos, an appeal to a person’s logic, in the entirety of her speech. Such as, when she speaks of how society dictates that men should help women in nearly all instances; however, men never help her, and isn’t she a woman? She asks this question four times during her speech, because it is obvious
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