 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?  History of Ohio - Page 338by Charles Burleigh Galbreath - 1925Full view - About this book
 | Booker T. Washington - African Americans - 1909 - 472 pages
...height and her voice to a pitch like rolling thunder, she asked), an* ar'n't I a woman ? Look at me! Look at my arm!" And she bared her right arm to the...shoulder, showing her tremendous muscular power. "I have plowed, an' planted, an' gathered into barns, an' no man could head me — an' ar'n't I a woman ? I... | |
 | John Wesley Cromwell - African Americans - 1914 - 342 pages
...carriages or over mud puddles or gives me any best place, and ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arms' (and she bared her right arm to the shoulder, showing her tremendous muscular power). 'I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no one could head me off, and ain't I a woman f I could... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Women - 1970 - 452 pages
...carriages or over puddles, or gives me the best place — and ain't I a woman? "Look at this 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... | |
 | Bert James Loewenberg, Ruth Bogin - Social Science - 2010 - 370 pages
...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? 1 could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear... | |
 | Shirley Morahan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1981 - 334 pages
...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 lash as well !... | |
 | Joan M. Jensen - Business & Economics - 1981 - 328 pages
...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... | |
 | Will D. Campbell - Holmes County (Miss.) - 2002 - 318 pages
...Truth's celebrated words spoken in 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio: I have -plowed., 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 — when I could get it — and bear the lash... | |
 | Maurice O. Wallace - History - 2002 - 260 pages
...Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, "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... | |
 | Johnny E. Williams - History - 2003 - 212 pages
...me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles, or gibs me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! (and she bared her right arm to the...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... | |
 | Carole Ruth McCann, Seung-Kyung Kim - Family & Relationships - 2003 - 518 pages
...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... | |
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