Question

Read the excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Answer 1

Answer: a sense of oppression and domination

Explanation:

The phrase that best describes the connotation of the word “reigns" is a sense of oppression and domination.

Reign means to exercise sovereign power or to be able to exercise authority over someone or a nation. American reigns without a rival implies the domineering power that the country has over others.