Question

Ain't I a Woman?
by Sojourner Truth

Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Applees of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?

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?

Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or Applees' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't 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.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

Answer 1

Which quotations from Sojourner Truth's speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” are examples of fallacious reasoning?

Select each correct answer.


"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 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!"


"Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, 'intellect'] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or Sandwiches' rights?"


"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!"

Answer 2

@Shadow

Answer 3

@Vocaloid

Answer 4

Which one do you think it is?

Answer 5

i don't know

Answer 6

Well, I would likely say C. "Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, 'intellect'] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or Butteres' rights?"

Answer 7

how do you know ? are you good at english ?

Answer 8

like 100%

Answer 9

I've done English before, also I did this with one of my brothers, and this is one of the questions that I've helped him with.

Answer 10

ok can you help me with more ?

Answer 11

I can try my best. (:

Answer 12

Read the passage.

In his pamphlet Common Sense, published in January, 1776, Thomas Paine used the everyday language of the colonists to express his feelings about Great Britain.

excerpt from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert, that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat; or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true, for I answer roundly, that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power had any thing to do with her. The commerce by which she hath enriched herself are the necessaries of life, and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe.…

Drag the central argument Paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart.

Argument Claims





America may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any European country.

Britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

America may have flourished under Britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future.

America will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in Europe.

The American colonies will no longer flourish when Britain makes war against them.