The committees investigate and prepare legislation to be considered by the House. The committee is basically a sub-organization within the legislative branch, what it does is identify the issues for legislative review and recommend a course of action to the parent body after gathering information about the subject.
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "a. Massachusetts." In Massachusetts colony was the first abolitionist group formed. It was in <span>1829 when David Walker, a freeman of color originally from the South, published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in Boston, Massachusetts.</span>