Unit 4: Selection Vocabulary 3

This list covers "Speech to the Ohio Women’s Conference: Ain’t I a Woman?" and Across Five Aprils.
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  1. account
    a record or narrative description of past events
    Account by Frances Dana Gage, Anti-Slavery Standard, 1863
  2. intellect
    knowledge and mental ability
    Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [Member of audience whispers, "intellect."]
  3. oblige
    cause to be indebted
    Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
  4. reap
    gather, as of natural products
    I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
  5. spurn
    reject with contempt
    The lady has spoken about Jesus, how he never spurned woman from him, and she was right.
  6. lapse
    a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
    The two older brothers and Wilse Graham talked as they splashed in the cold water, and Jethro could sense the pleasure they felt in seeing one another again after the lapse of several years.
  7. tariff
    a government tax on imports or exports
    The high- tariff industrialists would sooner hev the South starve than give an inch that might cost them a penny.
  8. tremulous
    quivering as from weakness or fear
    Then Ellen's voice was heard, timid and a little tremulous; farm women didn't enter often into man-talk of politics or national affairs.
  9. reckoning
    a time or act of being held accountable; a settling of accounts
    I own a few slaves, and if I stood before my Maker alongside one of em, I'd hev no way to justify the fact that I was master and he was slave. But leavin' that final reckonin' fer the time, let me ask you this: ain't there been slavery from the beginnin' of history?
  10. abolitionist
    a reformer who favors putting an end to slavery
    Well then, I'll ask you this: if tomorrow every slave in the South had his freedom and come up North, would yore abolitionists git the crocodile tears sloshed out of their eyes so they could take the black man by the hand?
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