Sojourner Truth Speech

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Sojourner Truth gave her speech to address her views on women's rights and advocate equal rights of men and women everywhere.
2. The social conversations address the rights of African American women and how they should be the same as men.
3.The purpose of her speech is also the same as her motivation. She wanted to give her views on women's rights and wanted the rights of men and women to be equal.
4. The intended audience would be women and political figures that were against women's rights. She was making a statement to them to make changes socially and politically.
5. Sojourner Truth is the writer and her background of being a slave and the mistreatment that she endured enabled her to give this speech.
6. Sojourner Truth is directly

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