Following that, she said that women should be allowed to set the world right again. Another biblical anecdote Truth used was the story of Lazarus. Lazarus died and his sisters, Mary and Martha, came to Jesus and asked him to raise their brother from the dead, and he did. She then asked who brought Jesus into the world, and said it was God who created him and a woman who bore him. Therefore women were blessed, while men, who had no part in the birth of Jesus, owed women their natural rights. Truth's speech used ethos as a form of persuasion to empower her audience to continue in their struggle for women's suffrage and to encourage them. Her use of ethos, or ethical appeal, was convincing because of her character. Truth was a former slave and a respected woman. She was initially scheduled to speak at the convention, but when she came forward to the platform and asked the President if she could speak, he immediately gave her the opportunity. True to her name, Truth spoke candidly about her experiences as an enslaved woman. Although she was illiterate, Truth used her Biblical and personal knowledge to present herself in a manner that would captivate and influence her audience. Truth was successful in her endeavor because her speech was published in June 1851 in The Anti-Slavery Bugle, and was widely distributed among her fellow feminists and abolitionists. The account of Harriet Jacobs in Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, was different from Sojourner Truth's account because it was Jacobs' autobiography detailing her enslavement. Jacobs opened her tale saying that she was born a slave, but she never knew it until six years of her happy childhood had passed. Afterwards, she immediately drew her audience, mostly white northerners, into her heart-wrenching and painful story. Throughout her life, Jacobs was sexually abused, separated from her children, forced to live in an attic crawl space for seven years, and was constantly pursued by her slave owner even after she ran away to the north.
