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In the second paragraph of "Ain't I a Woman?," how does Truth appeal to listeners’ sense of logic? 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?

Read the quotation from "Ain't I a Woman?" Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. How does this quotation support the central idea of the speech?

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?

Which best describes why Truth describes her personal experiences in "Ain't I a Woman?"

Which excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" is the best example of logos?

Read the quotation from "Ain't I a Woman?" I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! Which statement best explains why this is an example of ethos?

Read the quotation from "Ain't I a Woman?" That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Which 1850s social norm is reflected in the excerpt about white women?

Based on "Ain't I a Woman?," how did Truth most likely feel about the anti-suffragist idea that women were too sentimental and emotional to be involved in politics?

In "Ain't I a Woman?," why does Truth repeat the phrase “Ain’t I a woman?” throughout the second paragraph? 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?

Read the quotation from Abigail Adams. It is from a letter she wrote her husband, John Adams, as he helped draft the US Constitution. I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Based on "Ain't I a Woman?," how would Truth most likely feel about Adams’s statement?