Emmeline Pankhurst Speech: Freedom or death - Hartford, Connecticut on November 1913 I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain - it seems strange it should have to be explained - what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women. I am not only here as a soldier temporarily absent from the field at battle; I am here as a person who, according to the law courts of my country, is of no value to the community at all. I am adjudged because of my life to be a dangerous person, under sentence of penal servitude in a convict prison.

You won your freedom in America when you had your revolution, by bloodshed and by sacrificing human life. You won the civil war by the sacrifice of human life when you decided to emancipate the black people in America. You have left it to women in your land, the men of all civilised countries, to work out their own salvation*. Human life for us is sacred. If any life is to be sacrificed it shall be ours. We will put the enemy in the position where they will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death. I come in the breaks of prison appearance. I come after having been four times imprisoned under the "Cat and Mouse Act*", probably going back to be rearrested as soon as I set my foot on British territory. I come to ask you to help to win this fight. If we win it, this hardest of all fights, then in the future it is going to be made easier for women all over the world to win their fight when their time comes.

Glossary:
“Cat and Mouse Act” = government’s act to suffrage hunger strikers in 1913
Salvation = being saved or protected
Penal servitude = imprisonment with hard labour/work
Question:

- How does the writer of this speech (Emmeline Pankhurst) persuade her audience to adopt her points of view?