In Frances D. Gage’s article “Reminiscences,” Gage conveys a graphic narrative of a speech that was delivered by ex-slave Sojourner Truth, at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. Sojourner's speech argues that women and colored folk can have the same voting rights as white men can. As president of the meeting, Gage recalls the words spoken by Sojourner on this issue. Sojourner proposed that women are as equal as men, based on the premise that she can do anything just as well as a man can. In “Reminiscences”, Frances D. Gage is effective at conveying women's voting rights by using ethos, pathos, and logos by recounting his experience at the convention. Sojourner Truth uses her ethos to convey her message to the audience on why women, …show more content…
And am I a woman?” Although the audience was against her speaking at first, they felt swayed through the use of pathos. In comparison to white men, Truth describes her life being harder than, therefore supporting her argument on who should have voting rights. Sojourner uses logos in her speech to appeal to the audience's reasoning by using the quotes: "Wall, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin' out o' kilter. I tink dat 'twixt de niggers of de Souf and de womin at de Norf, all talkin' 'bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon” and “There were very few women in those days who dared to "speak in meeting"; and the august teachers of the people were seemingly getting the better of us, while the boys in the galleries, and the sneerers among the pews, were hugely enjoying the discomfiture, as they supposed, of the "strong These quotes effectively show the logical reasoning as to why a person wasn't as outspoken as Sojourner was about their rights. It shows that educated speakers were the only ones who spoke up, while the strong minded were looked down