High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Ain`t I a Woman?" is the name given to a speech, delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth, (1797–1883), born a slave in New York State. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker. Her speech was delivered at the Women`s Convention in Akron, Ohio, on May 29, 1851, and was not originally known by any title.