Question

Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and to fill me with unutterable loathing of slaveholders, it was their base ingratitude to my poor old grandmother. She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age. She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great-grandmother in his service. She had rocked him in infancy, attended him in childhood, served him through life, and at his death wiped from his icy brow the cold death-sweat, and closed his eyes forever.

Douglass’s purpose in this excerpt is to?

A.praise the kindness and faithfulness of his grandmother.
B.mourn the death of a master who had been kind to him.
C.provide an example of the torment enslaved persons endure.
D.argue that enslaved persons should be set free when their master dies.

Answer 1

Answer:

the answer is C

Explanation:

Answer 2

D ) Provide an example of the torment enslaved persons endure.

• Douglass tells the story of still another degrading aspect of slavery: having one's value determined as a component of a slaveholder's estate, in a manner similar to that of a rabid animal. Thankfully, he stays in Baltimore instead of being sent to an even harsher master.

• The vile ingratitude of slaveholders toward my elderly grandmother, according to Douglass, "if any one item in my experience, more than another, tended to deepen my conviction of the hellish character of slavery, and to fill me with unutterable detest of slaveholders".
• He imagines the elderly woman by herself in her hut, slowly losing her vision and dying. It's a bit melodramatic. Douglass saw the way slaveholders treated their aged slaves and how they completely disregarded the attentive care they had provided for them their entire lives to be abhorrent.

Thus, he Provides an example of the torment enslaved persons endure through these lines.

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