Sojourner Truth is standing up for the rights of negro women, the "double jeopardy people". She starts off by noting how women should be helped out of carriages, because they are fragile and dainty, and should get the best place, but she has never gotten that, because she is a woman. Women like her should have as much rights as their counterparts because they are as tough, they work as hard, and they can get beaten just as much. Then Sojourner mixes in some religion, noting how Jesus came from a woman not as man.
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