Despite not gaining the right to vote until the 1900s, there was a good amount of women's right movements in the mid-1800s. It was also most famously a time of much conflict over the issue of slavery. In 1851 Sojourner Truth delivered a speech about women's rights and the respect of men towards women, especially slaves. In her speech Truth says that society is inhumane, especially towards women and slaves. She says that while white men generally try to treat women with respect they barely even recognize slave women as people, let alone women. She says that the reasons men use to justify their superiority are false and that they should be treated as equals. She says religion is something both blacks and whites, males and females, have in common and they shouldn't be treated differently for those reasons. She concludes by saying that white men need to reevaluate their reasoning for discriminating against both blacks and women.
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