Truth incorporates pathos by stating “I could work as much and eat as much as a man- when I could get it- and bear the lash as well!” This quote can provide fear to the white women because she expresses how even though she was a woman, she could still provide the same way as men. This could allow for the audience (white women) to imagine how they would feel if they were in her position as a black slave. Truth had wondered why she had received the different treatments based on her color and gender; if she could still do the same as everyone else. It was a discriminatory factor to prevent blacks from having the “hierarchy” of the whites. Also, Truth states “that man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches, and to have the best places everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?” By using pathos within this statement, Truth can create a sense of emotion of what a “black woman” went through during the periods of