I would think B, But i'm not 100% on that, hope this helped!
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Claim can be defined as those states or asserts provided against some topic, or for the positive impacts of something. The claim can be evidence or proof for what has been mentioned.
The claim that is directly against the argument of the cousin that the colonies should not stay under British rule, this is because the British rule taxed too much taxes on each and everything. One more reason is that they even put too much tax rates on consumption or buying tea.
This shows that the colonies must not stay under British rule.
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"Vanishing" has the connotation of happening almost magically-disappearing while people are looking. It also shows that something is disappearing or ending very quickly. Something 'finishing' or 'ending' feels like it was supposed to happen, that it's nothing out of the ordinary. Vanishing has a much more extraordinary quality.
This supports his main idea because he is trying to prove that terrible things (like the Holocaust) happen right in front of people's eyes and they don't do anything to stop it if they are being indifferent. This ties into the act of something vanishing because it happens in magic when people are looking right at the magician or the object that disappears.
It's "my feelings were not the result of any marked cruelty in the treatment I received; they sprung from the consideration of my being a slave at all. (I believe this is correct cause he thought he was a slave himself. And obviously didnt like it