"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
The 1851 Akron convention was part of which broader reform impulse?
- A
Progressive scientific management
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Antebellum interlinked abolition and women's rights movements
- C
Settlement house urban reform
- D
Populist farmer cooperatives
Explanation
Antebellum reform networks linked abolition, temperance, and women's rights; Truth's address fits that interconnected world of reform.