LAD 19:"Ain't I a Woman?"

In Sojourner Truth's speech she speaks about being just as equal as white women and just as strong as men. She is trying to open up everyone's eye's to how hard it is to be not only a wowan but a black woman as well. She says that white woman get special treatment and favors from men but black freed slave women do not get any treatment. She also says that she can do anything a man could, she can eat as much and take any punishment a man would. She is proud to be a black woman and whats to be treated equally.

LAD 18: "What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July?"

Frederick Douglass' speech is about why he was asked to give a speech on the 4th of July when he and his fellow freed slaves had nothing to do with the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence. he is upset that they are asked to celebrate a holiday that signifies the Americans freedom when they were not given any.