1. What do you see as the relationship between the women’s movements and abolition host movements?
The relationship I see between the women’s movement and the abolition movement is that since the women’s rights movement began to emerge around the 1830’s more and more recognition was found. And yet when long alliances were broken, old friends and those who were in the abolition women’s movement parted ways to join another company.
2. Discuss the two versions of the speech by Sojourner Truth. What do we see when we compare the two versions? What can this show us about the context of that time?
When comparing both speeches I see that they basically say and question the same thing which is a woman’s strength. For example; “I have as much muscle as any man … I have plowed, and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed.” This just goes to show that a woman’s strength is very much underestimated by men. Especially during their day and age where women were sort of looked down upon from doing a “man’s work” or “eating as much as a man”. Sojourner Truth states it loud and clear that; “…can eat as much, too … if women have a pint and man a quart – why can’t she have her little pint full?”
3. Pick a quote or two from one of the texts that spoke to you or that confused you. Describe and explain the quote(s) as best as you can and/or identify your questions about them.
“You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, for we can’t take more than our pint’ll hold.” I find this quote very interesting because it was the first sentence I read while skimming through the speech. I don’t even know how to put my explanation into words because this quote for me says it all, and I don’t have anything more to say or add to it.
