Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination. Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection.
Which answer choice best states Douglass’s purpose in this excerpt?
A.to demand payment from slaveholders for their crimes
B.to show how children were treated better than elderly people
C.to compare his experience with that of other enslaved persons
D.to describe how people were degraded and treated inhumanely
Answers
The answer is D. To describe how people were degraded and trested inhumanely
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Frederick says that "adopted slaveholders are the worst": They were cruel but cowardly, at times rigid and at times lax, and never knew what to expect which was worse than knowing what was coming.
Explanation:
The excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:
Frederick Douglass suffers more anxiety than other slaves during the division of the Auld estate. He has known kindness, and it's harder for him to endure the possibility of belonging to a cruel master. He could not change his condition, even though he knew well that what people did to him and his fellow slaves was very wrong and inhumane. In his narrative, he confessed that “learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing” and that he “envied his fellow slaves for their stupidity.
Douglass succeeds in making all of the fellow slaves at Mr. Freeland's farm desire to be able to read. He led up to 40 fellow slaves in teaching them how to read.
Douglass speech: Throughout this speech, as well as his life, Douglass advocated equal justice and rights, as well as citizenship, for blacks. He begins his speech by modestly apologizing for being nervous in front of the crowd and recognizes that he has come a long way since his escape from slavery.
Douglass's word choices contribute to the tone of the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:
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Identify evidence from the excerpt that reveals why learning to read was so important to Frederick Douglass when he was a boy?
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