Which statement is a central idea in Chapters I and II of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
Which statement is a central idea in Chapters I and II of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
A) Enslaved people work in horrible conditions and experience horrific treatment.
B) Enslaved people do not have enough knowledge to make their own decisions.
C) Plantation masters choose reasonable overseers and appropriate punishments. D) An enslaved person born to a plantation master has more advantages than those who are not.
Part B Which two statements from the text best support the answer in Part A?
A) “He whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it.”
B) “. . .and only makes a bad matter worse, both for himself [plantation master] and the salve whom he would protect and defend.”
C) “There must be no halting; every one must be at his or her post; and woe betides them who hear not this morning summons to the field. . .”
D) “I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run. . .”
Part A. Enslavers treat enslaved people as if they are equivalent to animals. Part B. When these [linen shirts] failed them, they went naked until the next allowance day. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses of their.
