What angers the townspeople the most when the king is
selling the Wilks’ slaves is that:
He
separates parents and children in the sale.
Separating the parents and children in the sale is a
strategy that they thought of to sell the slaves faster. However, the girls
found breaking up the family insensitive – which made them upset. There were
also a lot of the townspeople who disapproved at separating the families, but
the men were still firm on doing it.
The proper answer is “C. He separates parents children in
the sale.”
You are referencing a scene from _The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn_ where slaves that once belonged to the now-deceased Peter Wilks
are being sold off by the King and Duke.
The fact that the slaves are being sold is not what gets people
angry. What angers people is that the
family of slaves is broken up in order to have the sold faster separately than
they would have been had they been sold together as a family.
