Support for/or public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy (advocacy) of improvement of a community/society. A key idea or feature that makes up progressivism is the reform of taxes, military, or laws.
The correct answer is C.
The central idea of this passage is that the US needs to grant its black population freedom and equality.
Douglass makes the argument that this country cannot reach its maximum potential if a good portion of the population is oppressed. He compares the oppression of African-Americans in the United States to cutting off the right arm of every soldier going to war -- senseless and dangerous.
The aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature ofsome person or <span>thing.</span>
