Question

Which excerpt is a counterclaim in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Answer 1

D. Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? That he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it.

Answer 2

The answer is: D. Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? That he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it.

"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" is a speech given by Frederick Douglass in 1852, it was addressed the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, here Douglass shows that several American values were an offense to the enslaved people such as freedom and citizenship, these American values were not being honored to them.