Pride and Pathos

First off let me just applaude Sojourner Truth for what she did. The mere fact that she stood up (as a woman of color) and talked in front of the crowd of white me and women before slavery was even abolished! There obviously must have been deep rooted emotion in her words. Her emotions come out as she's talking of being a mother and witnessing her 13 children get sold into slavery. The thought of that is just heartwrenching. This is a very good form of pathos. She shows ethos which correlates with the same situation. Her credibility (ethos) is that she herself was a slave, adn she even said, " have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! " her logos comes into play as she starts talking about how a person's intellect cannot make or break said person's rights in society. This is my first encounter with Sojourner Truth, and for this, i think extremely highly of her. What a powerful woman, with even more powerful words.