Question

Which excerpt from "What the Black Man Wants" best summarizes the speech?

Answer 1

Shall we at this moment justify the deprivation of the Negro of the right to vote, because some one else is deprived of that privilege? is the answer

Answer 2

At the time of the Reconstruction era, Mr. Frederick Douglass insisted that government’s actions require safeguarding land, rights to vote, as well as, national and communal impartiality for black Americans. “What the Black Man Wants” is the speech given by Douglass in April 1865. It was presented in front of an Anti-Slavery Society referred to as “Massachusetts Anti-SS”.

However, the last option in the query-"Shall we at this moment justify the deprivation of the Negro of the right to vote, because someone else is deprived of that privilege?"- presents the central idea of the disquisition or say, summarizes it.