The author's intent in this excerpt is C. to expose the horrors of Southern slavery.
In this excerpt, Beecher described the conditions which the slaves were in - families torn apart and poorly educated - and how their treatment goes against Christian values.
Scansion
Scansion is the act of going through a line of poetry and marking through syllables, which are stressed and which are unstressed. Putting the marking of the whole line together will give the reader an understanding of the meter and rhythm of the line.
Answer:
Malik stubbornly resists change.
Explanation: