1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Jet001 [13]
3 years ago
14

But I fancy I hear some one of my audience say, it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to

make a favorable impression on the public mind. Would you argue more, and denounce less, would you persuade more, and rebuke less, your cause would be much more likely to succeed. But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light? Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody doubts it. The slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave.
There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man, (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment. What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is conceded. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write. When you can point to any such laws, in reference to the beasts of the field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave. When the dogs in your streets, when the fowls of the air, when the cattle on your hills, when the fish of the sea, and the reptiles that crawl, shall be unable to distinguish the slave from a brute, then will I argue with you that the slave is a man! (“What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass.)

What is Douglass’s main argument in this passage?

A) The laws about slaves are unfair.

B) Slaves are human beings.

C) Slavery should be abolished.

D) He does not need to argue about whether slaves are human beings because everyone already agrees that they are.
English
1 answer:
Nitella [24]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

slavery should be abolished

You might be interested in
Give three reasons why social media is bad 
Deffense [45]

\huge\bold\red{Answer:-}

<h2><u>1.) Insecurity</u></h2>

<h2><u>2.) Distraction</u></h2>

<h2><u>3.) Addiction</u></h2>

6 0
3 years ago
Doing research is useful for _____.
maksim [4K]
Doing research is useful for gathering details
3 0
2 years ago
“They made her a grave, too cold and damp
alukav5142 [94]
The poetic pattern for this work is  A-B-A-A-B
8 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Revise and edit the argumentative research essay you wrote in Lesson 2, based on feedback from your peers and from your instruct
iragen [17]

In the days of communism, many Romanian and Bulgarian children, who now are among the countries' leading technologists, learned to code on replicas of Apple II and ZX Spectrum machines.

7 0
2 years ago
In a well-known adaptation of hamlet, one actor plays both hamlet and the ghost. What is the effect of this adaptation?.
lesya [120]

Answer:

it basically establishes that Hamlet is mad

Explanation:

Hamlet is mentally ill and the ghost is a figment of his imagination.

8 0
2 years ago
Other questions:
  • Cupful is an example of a(n) _____ noun.
    15·2 answers
  • The depiction women in Romeo and Juliet
    10·1 answer
  • Which sentence does not contain any errors?
    5·1 answer
  • How is the genitive (possessive) case commonly shown in Modern English nouns? (Mark all that apply.)
    10·2 answers
  • A character faces a conflict because his enemy wants to hurt him. What kind of conflict is this?
    13·2 answers
  • What was a common theme for 19th century novels?
    10·2 answers
  • ASAP NEED HELP
    12·1 answer
  • Assessment timer and count
    13·1 answer
  • My mom called but she said she never said a word was the answer
    15·1 answer
  • Identify the subject and verb.
    14·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!