Read the excerpt from "Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth.
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?
What is the speaker’s claim?
She is a mother.
She was enslaved.
Women are as capable as men.
Women suffer more than men.