Discourse discussion
conference debate
confabulation parley
colloquy consultation
confab deliberation
D, with the most simple. When writing speeches/voicing speeches, always go from simple to complex so your listeners or readers can follow the point you are trying to get across.
The sky is neither blue or bright. Just grey and dark. Its lightly raining and at a very cool temperature
Douglass learns the white man's power comes from the ability to prevent education to the slaves. The excerpt expresses Douglass' understanding of how education empowers the literate person and by remaining illiterate, unable to read, the master keeps his power against the slave.