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Read this excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle.
What is the meaning of the figurative language in this passage?
There was a gate with blood on it at the plantation where Douglass lived.
Douglass had to go through great pain during his escape from slavery.
Being enslaved was the worst experience imaginable.
Douglass was spared the worst kinds of physical torture that other enslaved people faced.anation:
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It provides background on how a family from Russia got into the sugar business.
Explanation:
The book <em>Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science </em>tells about the development of the sugar business, starting from its origins in New Guinea in 7000 B.C. to the 21st century and production of ethanol. An important topic in the book is a blood trail this industry left - the deaths of countless African slaves forced into sugar production.
This particular excerpt tells a story about how an ancestor of one Russian family entered the sugar business as a serf, a farmer bound to his lord's land, which he works on.
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