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Definition of "intellect" in Sojourner Truth's speech: Intellect refers to mental capacity or intelligence. This understanding was deduced from the way the term was used in relation to women's and negroes’ rights, indicating the belief that intellectual capacity should not limit an individual’s rights and freedoms.

Intellect, as used in the speech, refers to mental capacity or intelligence. This definition is derived from the context in which Sojourner Truth questions the notion that women should have fewer righ

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Question: Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about? That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I 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! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [Member of audience whispers, "intellect."] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full? Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say. ***Account by Marius Robinson, Anti-Slavery Bugle, 1851: I want to say a few words about this matter. I am for a woman's rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman have a pint, and a man a quart—why can't she have her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much—for we can't take more than our pint'll hold. The poor men seems to be all in confusion and don't know what to do. Why children, if you have woman's rights, give it to her and you will feel better. You will have your own rights, and they won't be so much trouble. I can't read, but I can hear. I have heard the Bible and have learned that Eve caused man to sin. Well, if woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again. The lady has spoken about Jesus, how he never spurned woman from him, and she was right. When Lazarus died, Mary and Martha came to him with faith and love and besought him to raise their brother. And Jesus wept and Lazarus came forth. And how came Jesus into the world? Through God who created him and the woman who bore him. Man, where was your part? But the women are coming up, blessed be God, and a few of the men are coming up with them. But man is in a tight place, the poor slave is on him, woman is coming on him, he is surely between a hawk and a buzzard. Use context to determine the meaning of the word intellect as it is used in the third paragraph of Sojourner Truth's "Speech to the Ohio Women’s Conference." Write your definition of intellect here and explain how you found it. don't plagizaire it and make it only 3 sentences

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In the context of Sojourner Truth's speech, "intellect" refers to the mental capacity or ability to understand, reason, and think critically. In the third paragraph, she challenges the notion that gender determines intellectual capacity by questioning its relevance to rights. She essentially asks why if a woman has less intellectual capacity ("a pint"), why she shouldn't have her pint filled to its full capacity, arguing that rights shouldn't be based on the size of one's intellect. This interpretation is derived from analyzing her rhetorical question about the "thing in the head" and the analogy of pint versus quart capacities.

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March 27, 2024, 10:30 a.m.

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Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2024

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