Question

For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses . . . that, while we are reading, writing and ciphering, acting as clerks, merchants, and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men . . . living in families as husbands, wives, and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian’s God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!
—Frederick Douglass


This is an example of ______ reasoning.

Answer 1

Abolitionism Because Abolitionism was a movement of people to end slavery

Answer 2

Answer:

The excerpt from the speech gave by Frederick Douglass is an example of deductive reasoning.

Explanation:

Deductive reasoning is a logical process in which a logical process in which a conclusion is reached on the concordance of different premises that are generally assumed to be true. In the speech gave by Douglass, he uses deductive reasoning to express to give the main message that the black race is equal to the rest of the races, by exposing diverse premises that made that conclusion logical to be true.