Answer: B) It gets the audience to start thinking about whether the Declaration of Independence was beneficial for the slaves.
Explanation: in the given excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s speech “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery” we can see that he uses a series of questions to create a specific effect in the audience. He asks questions like "Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?" to get the audience to start thinking about whether the Declaration of Independence was beneficial for the slaves.
