"That man over there says women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles. And ain't I a woman? Look at me! 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." — Sojourner Truth, Akron, Ohio, 1851
Truth's speech most directly exposed which contradiction in antebellum reform?
- Acheck_circle
Women's rights rhetoric ignored Black women's labor experiences
- B
Free Soilers excluded northern wage laborers
- C
Abolitionists rejected women speakers entirely
- D
The Second Great Awakening opposed female piety
Explanation
Truth confronted the white-centered "true womanhood" framework by spotlighting the brute physical labor demanded of enslaved women.