Read the quotation from Abigail Adams. It is from a letter US Constitution.
she wrote her husband, John Adams, as he
helped draft the
If perticuliar care and attention iS not paid
hold ourselves bound by any Laws in
to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will
which we have no voice, or Representation.
not
Which excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" best supports Adams's view?
Then that little man in black there,
woman! Where
he says women can't have as much rights as
did your Christ come from?
men, 'cause Christ wasn't a
Nobody ever helps me into
carriages,
or over mud-puddles, or
• If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn
gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?
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.
• 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 -
well!
when I could get it - and bear the lash as