Read the excerpt from "We Are All Bound Up Together” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.I took my children in my arms, and went out to seek my living. While I was gone; a neighbor to whom I had once lent five dollars, went before a magistrate and swore that he believed I was a non resident, and laid an attachment on my very bed. And I went back to Ohio with my orphan children in my arms, without a single feather bed in this wide world, that was not in the custody of the law. I say, then, that justice is not fulfilled so long as woman is unequal before the law.
Answer
A
Denying women equal rights is unfair.
B
Orphans face many hardships, including extreme poverty.
C
False claims against neighbors are wrong.
D
Loaning money to neighbors can change the relationship.
Explanation
Harper describes how a neighbor used the law to take her bed while she was away with her children, leaving them with almost nothing. She uses this experience to argue that justice is incomplete when women are unequal before the law. Therefore, the best choice is “Denying women equal rights is unfair.”
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