Excerpt from Ain't I a Woman, a speech by Sojourner Truth Delivered at the 1851 Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages,
and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody
ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best
place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have
ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head
me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a
man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a
woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to
slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus
heard me! And ain't I a woman?"

Which line is a direct appeal to the audience she was speaking to at the Women's Convention?


A. "Look at me! Look at my arm!"
B. "Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place!"
C. "I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well!"
D. "I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head
me!"