Answer: Paragraph 17 is both the conclusion of the article and the conclusion of Douglass's life.
Explanation: The paragraph refers to his attendance at the meeting of the National Council of Women, affirming his commitment to the women's rights movement mentioned in paragraph 10. The final paragraph tells how Douglass died, and summarizes the overall content of the bibliography: how he was "a central figure in the fight for equality and justice for his entire life."
Answer:
Paine's opinion is that God will not allow the colonists to be conquered because they have tried so hard to avoid war.
Explanation:
"(...)<u>my secret opinion</u> has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war(...)"
That's the key opinion of the excerpt from Thomas Paine's essay. The rest of the phrases and sentences are arguments or secondary key points that derivates from that principal statement: As we have sought to avoid the calamities of war, God Almighty won't give us destruction.
B. Immigrants had no loyalty to the US
In his speech <em>What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?</em>, Douglass argues that the state of Virginia has passed laws that punish slaves if they commit crime. He believes that the fact that these laws exist implies that the government believes slaves to be logical, moral, thinking humans that hold personal responsibility. Moreover, laws are passed against teaching them to read and write. These laws imply that slaves can be taught things, and that they have the capacity to learn. This establishes the "manhood" of slaves.
As the law of the United States has already established that all men have the right to own their own body and to freedom, and black people are, as proven, fully human, then it must be illegal to own them.
