Question

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women

persons? I scarcely believe any of our opponents will have
the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then,
women are citizens, and no State has a right to make any
new law, or to enforce any old law, which shall abridge their
privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination
against women in the constitutions and laws of the several
States is today null and void, precisely as is every one
against negroes.
-Susan B. Anthony, "Speech After Being Convicted of
Voting"
Why does Susan B. Anthony connect the struggle of black people and the
fight for women's suffrage in the passage?
O A. To appeal to those who are unsure about the end of slavery
B. To appeal to an audience that is against slavery
O C. To appeal to the former slaves in the audience
O D. To appeal to the audience members who are pro-slavery

Answer 1

Answer: C. To appeal to the former slaves in the audience

Step-by-step explanation:

Susan Anthony was convicted of wrongfully voting in 1872. By this time, slavery had been abolished in the United States as a result of the Union defeating the Confederacy and then passing the 13th Amendment.

Susan Anthony could not therefore be trying to appeal to those against slavery because there was no slavery. She must have been appealing to the former enslaved people in the audience who were still being mistreated simply because they were black.