{"id":47953,"date":"2022-10-20T21:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.co.uk\/rhetorical-analysis-sojourner-truth\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T21:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:43:19","slug":"rhetorical-analysis-sojourner-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.com\/essays\/rhetorical-analysis-sojourner-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhetorical Analysis \u2013 Sojourner Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rhetorical Analysis \u2013 Sojourner Truth \u2013 50 Points<br \/>\nBefore Next Class<br \/>\nRead both accounts of Sojourner Truth\u2019s speech, \u201cAin\u2019t I a Woman?\u201d as written by Maurius Robinson (1851) and Frances Dana Gage (1863)<br \/>\nBOTH Robinson\u2019s account and Gage\u2019s account can also be read at this link:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EEjN7IgRHG\"><p><a href=\"sojournertruthmemorial.org\/sojourner-truth\/her-words\/\">Her Words<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Her Words&#8221; &#8212; Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee\" src=\"https:\/\/sojournertruthmemorial.org\/sojourner-truth\/her-words\/embed\/#?secret=Rl0d0e1OGj#?secret=EEjN7IgRHG\" data-secret=\"EEjN7IgRHG\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nJust be VERY CAREFUL about which account is which \u2013 VERY IMPORTANT.<br \/>\nInstructions:<br \/>\nWrite about the L\/E\/C of each account of Truth\u2019s words (Robinson\u2019s Account AND Gage\u2019s Account). Give examples of each rhetorical element.<br \/>\nWhat about Truth\u2019s use of Christianity to support her argument? Does it enhance or distract from her argument to an 1851 audience? To a 21st century audience (are religious references still relevant?).<br \/>\nConsider what Dr. Painter et al. say about the two different accounts \u2013 what is lost? Gained? Maintained? How exactly? Is Truth\u2019s authority challenged in any way? Directly or indirectly? Be specific when giving your observations.<br \/>\nWrite 2 &#8211; 4 pages.<br \/>\nAdditional Links for Assignment:<br \/>\nDr. Tammy L. Brown<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.miamioh.edu\/cas\/academics\/departments\/history\/about\/faculty\/brown\/index.html<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/collections.libraries.indiana.edu\/scholarscommons\/exhibits\/show\/the-women-s-suffrage-movement-\/notallwomen<br \/>\nTammy L. Brown for the 170th anniversary of Seneca Falls, could have been written for 2020. It\u2019s titled \u201cCelebrate Women\u2019s Suffrage, but Don&#8217;t Whitewash the Movement&#8217;s Racism\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/womens-rights\/celebrate-womens-suffrage-dont-whitewash-movements-racism<br \/>\n\u201cIn May 1851, African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth spoke at a women\u2019s rights convention in Akron, Ohio. During her famous speech on the abolition of slavery and the promotion of women\u2019s rights, Truth allegedly bared her breast and proclaimed, \u201cAin\u2019t I a woman?\u201d<br \/>\nIt was a melodramatic act and statement, but as historian Nell Painter argues, it never happened. Instead, it was a quaint fiction crafted by convention organizer Frances Dana Gage and other white feminists who depicted Truth to white audiences as a genuine albeit primitive ally in the fight for women\u2019s rights. Thus, the 1851 convention marked a modicum of progress, but this progress is tainted by white suffragists\u2019 attempts to control Truth\u2019s voice.\u201d<br \/>\nDr. Nell Painter<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nellpainter.com\/publications\/truth_art_chied.html<br \/>\n\u201cThe writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, for example, in an 1863 article for The Atlantic Monthly, recounted Truth&#8217;s famous confrontation with Frederick Douglass. When Douglass told a public meeting that ending slavery might require violence, Truth rose from the audience to caution patience:&#8221;But Frederick, is God dead?&#8221;<br \/>\nSimilarly, the feminist Frances Dana Gage recorded Truth&#8217;s challenge to a meeting of white advocates of women&#8217;s rights: &#8220;And ar&#8217;n&#8217;t I a woman?&#8221; Gage depicted the meeting as hostile to black people.<br \/>\nDr. Painter began to have doubts about these accounts when she read contemporary articles about the women&#8217;s-rights meeting: None of the journalists present mentioned Truth&#8217;s question.<br \/>\nSince then, the historian Carleton Mabee&#8217;s biography Sojourner Truth (New York University Press, 1993) has shown that Gage fabricated the incident. His book also says that, while Truth probably did confront Douglass, her words may have been different from those in Stowe&#8217;s version.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cShe argues that in the 19th century, amid wrenching struggles to end slavery, most writers saw in Truth proof that blacks and whites could live together. Abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe emphasized her moderation, depicting her as a peaceful Christian who appreciated white efforts to end slavery; feminists such as Frances Dana Gage stressed her role as a link between the causes of black and women&#8217;s rights.\u201d<br \/>\nOPTIONAL SOURCES<br \/>\nALSO:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.thesojournertruthproject.com\/the-readings<br \/>\nWatch video by Denice Jannah \u2013 This reading is interesting because she was born in Surinam and spent some her childhood there, but most of her life, she has lived in the Netherlands, where the language is Dutch. Jannah speaks multiple languages, including Dutch and English, like Truth did, so some of the word sounds may be very similar to the ones heard when Truth was speaking in 1851. The only caution here is that Jannah reads the 1863 version of the speech written by Gage.<br \/>\nAdditional Links to look at:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.nps.gov\/articles\/sojourner-truth.htm<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.thesojournertruthproject.com\/<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EEjN7IgRHG\"><p><a href=\"sojournertruthmemorial.org\/sojourner-truth\/her-words\/\">Her Words<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Her Words&#8221; &#8212; Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee\" src=\"https:\/\/sojournertruthmemorial.org\/sojourner-truth\/her-words\/embed\/#?secret=Rl0d0e1OGj#?secret=EEjN7IgRHG\" data-secret=\"EEjN7IgRHG\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.womenshistory.org\/education-resources\/biographies\/sojourner-truth<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/ohiohistorycentral.org\/w\/Frances_D._Gage<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.womenshistory.org\/education-resources\/biographies\/harriet-beecher-stowe<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/ohiomemory.org\/digital\/collection\/p267401coll32\/id\/10571\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/ead.ohiolink.edu\/xtf-ead\/view?docId=ead\/OCLWHi1085.xml;query=;brand=default<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhetorical Analysis \u2013 Sojourner Truth \u2013 50 Points Before Next Class Read both accounts of Sojourner Truth\u2019s speech, \u201cAin\u2019t I a Woman?\u201d as written by Maurius Robinson (1851) and Frances\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6901,6896,6899,6897,6900,6903,6902,6905,6904,6843,6898],"tags":[103,95,83,94,80,86,79,98,93,104,6908,99,92,82,102,85,6907,8,101,97,87,96,91,89,90,88,100,1402,84,6906,81],"class_list":["post-47953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-dissertation-help-dissertation-help-tutors","category-assessment-brief-assignment-help","category-assessment-task-assignment-help","category-cheap-dissertation-writing-service-uk","category-custom-dissertation-writing-help","category-dissertation-help-services-uk","category-dissertation-proposal-help-uk","category-dissertation-writing-services-reddit","category-dissertation-writing-services-tiktok","category-dissertation-writing-services-uk-reviews","category-writing-dissertation-and-grant-proposals","tag-150-200-words-discussion-with-a-scholarly-reference","tag-200-300-words-response-to-classmate-discussion-question","tag-250-word-analysis-essay","tag-bachelor-of-nursing-assignments","tag-case-study","tag-essay-bishops-website","tag-expert-online-nursing-writing-service","tag-fast-nursing-papers","tag-freelance-case-study-writing-service","tag-health-medicine-assignment-help-australia","tag-health-care-an","tag-health-care-assignment-help-service","tag-healthcare-assignment-writing-services-by-top-writers","tag-healthcare-essay-writing-services-by-medical-academics","tag-healthcare-writing-help-by-certified-medical-academics","tag-i-need-to-submit-this-assignment","tag-in-a-paper","tag-medical-essay-writing-service","tag-nursing-assessment-help","tag-nursing-assignment-help","tag-nursing-assignment-help-australia","tag-nursing-assignment-help-sydney","tag-nursing-assignment-writers","tag-nursing-assignments-examples-assignment-help-nursing","tag-pay-someone-to-do-my-nursing-assignment","tag-professional-case-study-writers","tag-quality-nursing-essay-writing-service","tag-write-a-paper","tag-write-a-review","tag-write-an-essay","tag-writing-assignment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essaybishops.com\/essays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}