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Sojourner Truth spoke at the womens convention of 1851. She begins by saying all the problems that are pulling the north and south apart are going to lead to putting white men in a very bad place. She then carries on to say that many people think of women as delicate and fragile, however, she works in the fields and is independent because she has had to struggle to get by. She also says its unfair to think of women and men as being less equipped than men in intellectual fields as well.When a man in the back says that men are superior because christ was a man, she tells him that Christ came from a God and a women, so his argument is irrelevant. She wants women to fight for equal rights in America because she believes that man have no natural inborn superiority over women.