On pages 316-317, Annabeth and Grover argue over who gets left behind. Percy ended up taking both of them.
I think you could perhaps get that someone may have helped him and looked after him in a way that he didn't need to be very independent, George is always helping him and telling him things they don't have.. This could be down to his mental health but also down to his childhood. Just what I got from it..hope it helped a little :)
The effect of these words or first the meaning is that the author, Sojourner Truth an ex slave is obliged to those who listened to her speech and is concluding her speech and has stated that while white women may be oppressed too their oppression is still not as much as black women have suffered with the added oppression of slavery. She also states that she can work just as hard as a man so deserves to have equal rights.
