Objectives Closely examine the similarities between two texts.
Explore the meaning of injustice and personal response to it. Practice writing and oratory skills through composing and delivering a speech. An emancipated slave, her speech was born out of the frustration that she felt at the convention. Since the Women's Rights Movement was greatly influenced by and grew out of the anti-slavery movement, many of the women leaders were also abolitionists. This was the case with Frances Gage, who recorded Truth's speech.