Read the excerpt from Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World,
travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by
the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and
shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
Which phrase best describes the connotation of the word "reigns"?
O a sense of opportunity and growth
a sense of fear and anxiety
a sense of compassion and humanity
O a sense of oppression and domination

How does it change your understanding of the laws to read them as a primary source rather than just a summary of laws?

Which lines from the speech best supports this topic sentence? and as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. we cannot turn back. there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied? " and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. we cannot walk alone. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. and so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. and so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of new hampshire. let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of new york. let freedom ring from the heightening alleghenies of pennsylvania.

Throughout "sinners in the hands of an angry god," edwards uses imagery in an attempt to make readers feel angry at people who commit sins. respectful toward god and religion. fear about being sent to hell. confident that they will be saved.