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Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 2

Question 4 • HVA 26-27 IM English ELA 11 A

Which excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" best refutes the anti-suffragist idea that women were too fragile to handle the right to vote?

Answer
A
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman!
B
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.
C
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
D
I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!

Explanation

Sojourner Truth counters the claim that women are too fragile by describing work that demands strength and endurance. She says, “I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!” This shows that she is capable and strong, directly challenging the idea of women’s weakness.

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