Sojourner Truth opens her speech by bluntly stating that white men are going to be dealing with many upcoming conflicts with the countless reforms of blacks, as well as women taking place throughout Ameica. In her speech she is primarily arguing for the rights of women in general, however by asking the question, "Ain't I a woman?", she is making a point that just because she is a black woman, she should receive the same priveleges that white women already receive. Women, particularly white women, are fighting for acknowledgement of having an intelligence equal to that of a man. However, although white women receive the "privilege" of being helped into a carriage or over a puddle of mud, black women don't even receive those "womanly privileges." She says that women must assert their voices over those of men in order to bring about change and equalness and that men should stand aside and let them do it.
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