HELP Read the excerpt from Sojourner Truth's speech. 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?
The speech illustrates Sojourner Truth's belief that
women were as strong as men.
women had harder lives than men.
women deserved to be treated with chivalry.
women were better at hard work than men.