 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1866 - 602 pagini
...my arm,' and she laid bare her right arm to her shoulder, showing its tremendous muscular power. ' I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me; and arn't I a woman ? I have borne thirteen chillen, and seen most of 'em sold off into slavery, and when... | |
 | Charles Burleigh Galbreath - 1925 - 844 pagini
...Look at my arm ! (and she bared her right arm to the shoulder, showing her tremendous muscular power). I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me ! And a'n't I a woman ? I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1970 - 454 pagini
...gives me the best place — and ain't I a woman? "Look at this arm ! I have ploughed and planted arid gathered into barns, and no man could head me — and ain't I a woman? "I could work as much and ent as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear the lash as well ! And ain't I a woman? "I... | |
 | Bert James Loewenberg, Ruth Bogin - 2010 - 370 pagini
...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 women need to be helped into...barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? 1 could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear the lash as well!... | |
 | Shirley Morahan - 1981 - 334 pagini
...carriages, or ober mud-puddles, or gibs me any best place! Anda'n't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! 1 have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And a'n't I a woman? 1 could work as much and eat as much as a man— when I could get it— and bear de... | |
 | Joan M. Jensen - 1981 - 328 pagini
...puddles, or gives me any best place, and ar'n't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me— and ar'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear de... | |
 | Johnnetta B. Cole - 1988 - 594 pagini
...everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles or gives me any best place, and am I not a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm. I have ploughed,...gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And am I not a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear... | |
 | Michele Wallace - 1990 - 296 pagini
...Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851: . . . Look at me! Look at my arm! 1 have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me - and ar'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear de... | |
 | Peter Krass - 1990 - 194 pagini
...when they got dressed. Her arm, after many years of hard labor, was lean and sinewy. "I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me," Truth said. "And aren't I a woman?" She declared that she had worked as hard as any man— and that... | |
 | Ann Weems - 1991 - 192 pagini
...woman? Look at me! Look at my arm1" She bared her muscular right arm to the shoulder. "I have plowed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me — and ar'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear de... | |
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I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man— when I could get it— and bear de lash as well! And a'n't I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none... 
