INFLUENCES ON WRITING

Sojourner Truth

Race

Gender

"Then that little man in black 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 this section of "Aint I a Women?" Truth is implying that she is furious because of how men portray women as a lesser human being than themselves. She tries to use angry furious tone so she can bring to attention that women should not be thought as a people under the authority of man.

The previous quote can be related to racial discrimination towards African Americans themselves. Truth portrays the cup analogy in a way that African American women are of lower class and lower importance than Americans.

Class

Education

Sojourner was born to slave parents, but escaped and was free during the time of 1827. She barely made it by after being emancipated by selling autobiographical accounts of "Narrative of Sojourner Truth" and photographs of herself. While Sojourner was of low class in her writing style, she used dialect. Dialect is basically using the language spoken by people during a place, time, or social group.

Sojourner was born into slavery and was not able to read or write. Although she could do neither of these, she knew great knowledge of the Bible.