Question

Which best explains why historians are uncertain of the year of Frederick Douglass’s birth? This knowledge was kept from slaves. Douglass moved away when he was a baby. Slaves had no way to keep track of such records. There were no birth records in the nineteenth century.
THE ANSWER IS NOT C.

Answer 1

The correct answer is A:  

This knowledge was kept from slaves .

Frederick Douglass died on February 20, 1895 of a massive heart attack after returning from a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D.C. He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York.

This knowledge was kept from slaves because he was a strong slavery abolitionist.