change in United States history. Sojourner Truth became an influential advocate for the women's rights movement. In 1851 she delivered her “Ain't I a Woman” speech at the women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. Black women at this point were beginning to become empowered and assertive, speaking out on the disproportionate inequalities. Truth speaks of how she, and other women, are capable of working as much as men, after having thirteen children. This speech was one of the ways white and black women became closer to working towards fighting for the same thing. Another one of Truth's speeches at the American Equal Rights Association in New York in 1867 she said, ”If colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before." Her speeches brought attention to the movement, for black women, but also for white. Although private lives continued to be segregated, feminist coalitions became integrated. Two separate reasons aided integration in the feminist movement. Paula Giddings wrote that the two fights against racism and sexism could not be separated. Gerda Lerner wrote that black women demonstrated they too were fully capable of fighting and creating change for equality. Timeline 1809 US, Connecticut: Married women were allowed to execute wills. 1810 Sweden: The informal right of an unmarried woman to be declared of legal majority by royal dispensation was officially confirmed by parliament. 1811 Austria: Married women were granted separate economy and the right to choose their professions. Sweden: Married businesswomen were granted the right to make decisions about their own affairs without their husband's consent. 1821 US, Maine: Married women were allowed to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. 1827 Brazil: The first elementary schools for girls and the profession of school teacher were opened. 1829 India: Sati was banned. Sati scholars, however, disagree about the extent to which the prohibition of sati reflected concerns about women's rights. Sweden: Midwives were allowed to use surgical instruments, which were unique in Europe at the time and gave them surgical status. 1832 Brazil: Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto, under the pseudonym Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta, published her first book, and the first in Brazil to deal with women's intellectual equality and their capacity and right to be educated and participate in society