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Assignment 01

The Seneca Falls Convention opened the door to many issues surrounding women rights. Davis shows how flawed the premise of the women’s rights movement. The middle class women who wanted so much of their freedom back, failed to look to the freedoms of their working sisters. Sojourner Truth was an incredible force to the movement. She fought for what it meant to be a women in every facet of the struggles met. The most insightful part of Davis tellings of Truth, are the way she broke down the basis of christianity as means to justify women mistreatment. In chapter two the Council of Congregationalist Ministries of Massachusetts, spoke of a women not being able to talk the place of a man as a public reformer. Doing this, would be considered a great sin. Truth cleverly brought up the basic truth of reproduction, in that Jesus did in fact come from a women. Even more brilliant was Truth’s reference to Eve. I myself felt empowered as a women, knowing that I have the means to turn the world upside down. Thats what Sojourner Truth did. She empowered women to not be afraid to speak up and fight.