Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Douglass's purpose in this excerpt is to
O praise the kindness and faithfulness of his
grandmother.
O mourn the death of a master who had been kind to
him.
If any one thing in my experience, more than another,
served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character
of slavery, and to fill me with unutterable loathing of
slaveholders, it was their base ingratitude to my poor old
grandmother. She had served my old master faithfully
from youth to old age. She had been the source of all his
wealth, she had peopled his plantation with slaves, she
had become a great-grandmother in his service. She
had rocked him in infancy, attended him in childhood,
served him through life, and at his death wiped from his
icy brow the cold death-sweat, and closed his eyes
forever.
provide an example of the torment enslaved persons
endure.
argue that enslaved persons should be set free when
their master dies.
Answer is cc