Answer:
The answer to Part A would be Ignorant, as the author goes on to state that his youthful understanding had struggled in vain. If someone is ignorant of something, yet they do not take the time to actually go research or learn about that thing, then they would be struggling in vain because they are selfish and not taking time to research what it is that the other person is saying that they do not understand.
For the answer to Part B, I would say that (Frederick) Douglass' new awareness of how owners maintain control over slaves allows him to better understand how to improve his situation. I say this because he seems to have an awakening/epiphany in the very last line: "I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty".
Explanation:
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The answer would be: <em>They are the foolish ones.</em>
since the old smith is patient and exacting, not foolish at all + he does not care that others think his extreme carefulness is foolish.
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Answer:
"and that it had caused him pain."
Answer:
<u>meant to intimidate colored South Africans</u>
Explanation:
We can make this conclusion because the text explains further the reasons for the use of such a phrase. Trevor Noah stated<em>,</em>
<em>"The most common colored slur was boesman...Because it called out their blackness, their primitiveness. The worst way to insult a colored person was to infer that they were in some way black."</em>
Because colored South Africans were born from parents of two different races, (one parent is black the other white) the phrase was used to create an intimidating effect in the minds of those affected.
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