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Read the excerpt and answer the question.

Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ’twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what’s all this here talking about?

What is the tone of this excerpt from Truth’s "Ain’t I a Woman?"

accusatory
casual
naive
threatening