Hi, need to submit a 1250 words essay on the topic Sojourner Truth Ar'n't I a Woman.Download file to see previous pages... Basically, the women in Ar’n’t I a woman desired all the privileges of ci

Hi, need to submit a 1250 words essay on the topic Sojourner Truth Ar'n't I a Woman.

Basically, the women in Ar’n’t I a woman desired all the privileges of citizenship and the liberty to see themselves as a ‘woman’ in their own way. The experience of Sojourn Truth as a woman plays as an allegory for the common experience of slave women portrayed in Ar’n’t I a woman. These slave women of Southern plantations do not see themselves as a ‘woman’. When 19th-century America was fixated with safeguarding women and fixing them in domestic responsibilities, only slave women were absolutely defenseless. Merely African women had their ‘identity’ and ‘womanhood’ absolutely refuted: this is the overriding theme of Ar’n’t I a woman, and the primary argument of this paper. The Civil War had only just started, even if, before black women acquired the same message Sojourner Truth gained in Silver Lake. The Americas was ill-equipped to value their nationality, even less their being a ‘woman’. Throughout the conflict, they suffered insurmountable difficulties. They were objects of violence and cruelty, the targets of insults and derision, and their being a ‘woman’ was stripped away from them repeatedly. It was a difficulty simply to remain free, and a much harder difficulty to establish womanhood (Gates &amp. McKay, 2004). Still, slavery had strengthened them for this struggle. They had not endured maltreatment and abuse to submit to freedom. The methods created under slavery turned into a design for free existence. However, evidently, perils had to be confronted if freedom was to be achieved. Instead of hanging around until the war’s conclusion to be freed, enslaved people freed themselves. At the onset of the war they decline to carry out particular types of task and debated over issues of obedience and the supervision of the plantation (Fox-Genovese, 1988). A young white woman revealed in her diary that “the negroes seem very unwilling to work” (White, 1999, 165) as children, women, and men reduced their work tempo to a snail’s pace. Whenever the chance emerged, slaves run off. Normally, the black people waited to be emancipated once they arrived at the stronghold of Mr. Lincoln (Camp, 2004). However, at the onset of the conflict neither the defense force nor Lincoln was predisposed to make the conflict a struggle against enslavement. Northern combatants in fact brought back escaping slaves to their owners, and when Union officials released decrees emancipating all slaves in their controlled areas, Lincoln took precedence over them (Camp, 2004). The mere size of the population of running away slaves, nevertheless, compelled a reevaluation of army regulations. Free, women laborers on Northern plantations had a slightly more favorable condition. They expected to be compensated, but they were usually given insubstantial wages and at times received no wage at all. Basic necessities, such as clothing and food, were normally scarce, and women paid for their needs and those of their children. Overseers of Northern plantation had promised not to physically punish ex-slaves, but suggestive of enslavement, labor agreements usually obliged women to acquire consent and an authorization (Litwack, 1980) to run off the plantation. Most problematic to owners of slaves throughout the war was the fleeing of women they had viewed their ‘black mammies’ (Booker, 2000, 33). Aunt Polly, her master’s favorite, run off the moment she noticed the Northern army on the horizon.