Question

What is a central idea of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

A) Keeping slaves makes slaveholders inhuman.
B)Slaves who follow the rules are often freed.
C) Slaves are not the descendants of Ham.
D) Slavery was a primary cause of the Civil War.

Please help ASAP

Answer 1

Frederick Douglass's purpose in writing his autobiography was not only to show the way in which slavery degraded slaves but also to show the way the institution of slavery degraded slave masters.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

A) Keeping slaves makes slaveholders inhuman.

Step-by-step explanation:

Frederick Douglass was a writer, orator (and others), famous for his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which focuses on all of the slaveholders doings, and how slaves were treated.

The main idea of the book would be that slaveholders are made inhuman for keeping slaves.

Note: we must not forget that D is true, but that it is not the main focus of the book. It is also true that Fredrick Douglass himself helped recruiting coloured men for the Civil War.

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