Ain't I a Woman

The original copy of “Ain’t I a Woman” gives Soujner Truth more character than the edited version. Even though the edited version tells the crowd’s reaction during the speech, it doesn’t give their reaction before and after the speech like the original does. In the original, it shows the transition of the crowd from rejection to acceptance. At first the people didn’t even want Truth to go on stage to speak. One even said, “Every newspaper in the land will have our cause mixed up with abolition and niggers, and we shall be utterly denounced.” Every though Truth was an ex-slave and an African American, she was still a woman and wanted rights like any other white woman. Some people were throwing insults such as, “darkey.” The fact that she stood on stage with no fear and her head up straight, looking at directly at the audience, shows that she is a woman of strength, who has high self-esteem and doesn’t care what others think. After the speech, the women realized that she is a golden individual to the women’s rights movement and should be respected as one.