Miranda: English II, Section F

Blog # 2: Tuesday, September 4, 2007

I loved Sojourner Truth’s poem and this passage made me laugh out loud: “Then that little man back in there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman!’ Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson and the “fathers of our country” state their grievances to the English crown in order to justify their rebellion and separation from Great Britain. Sojourner Truth’s speech does not state any grievances, obviously she has had a hard life as a slave and a black woman in society. She even gave birth to 13 children and she lived through them being taken away from her and sold into slavery. Instead of complaining about how unfair her life has been and how many wrongdoings she has suffered, she simply appeals to your common sense and she engages her audience, not through the use of highfalutin’ vocabulary, or trying to make herself sound better or more educated than anybody else, she speaks to her audience honestly and with an air of being very down to earth and simple, and yet you still understand that she feels very passionately about her cause for women’s rights. The passage: “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.” Shows that Sojourner Truth really has a positive and hopeful outlook about the idea of fighting for women’s rights. She seems like she would be a strong leader and she displays that she is not afraid to question and defy male authority. Sojourner Truth seems like such a charismatic and strong willed woman and I think that if any woman who attended the women’s rights conference was unsure of whether they wanted to be a part of the cause of women’s rights, she would have cleared that right up for them and they would have had no doubt in their minds. They would have been right on the bandwagon on their way to freedom and civil rights. (A little bit corny…I Know… but it’s my first blog, I am allowed to be a little bit corny. Is it okay that I wrote that Ms. Rochette?? Please tell me if it is not.)