In the original speech by Sojourner Truth's, Ain’t I a Woman (I am a woman’s rights), Truth uses many different ways to influence her audience such as pathos and logos. I believe the original speech has more rhetorical power because of these influences. She explains how women are as strong, intelligent, and spiritual as men.
First Truth exclaims “I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that” In the sentence Truth uses logos to persuade her audience. She gives facts of what she has done in her life in order to show she is as strong as a man. In the revised version it states “look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!”. In the revised
