Leia, a seguir, parte de um discurso da abolicionista estaduni-
dense Sojourner Truth, feito em 1851.
“| think that ‘twixt the negroes 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'tla
woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! | have ploughed and
planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head
me! And ain't | a woman? | could work as much and eat as
much as a man — when | could get it — and bear the lash as
well! And ain’t | a woman? | have borne thirteen children,
and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when | cried out
with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t
la woman? (...)”
(Disponível em: — https://www.nps.gov/articles/sojourner-truth.htm. Acesso em
24/05/2022.)
Ao longo do discurso, Sojourner Truth repete a mesma pergun-
ta com a finalidade de
a) ilustrar atitudes sexistas vivenciadas por mulheres negras e
brancas.
S
problematizar a diferença de tratamento dispensado a mu-
lheres negras e brancas.
c) advogar pela igualdade de direitos entre homens e mulhe-
res.
&
criticar a separação entre brancos e negros de diferentes
classes sociais.
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