Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. She was nevertheless left a slave--a slave for life--a slave in the hands of strangers; and in their hands she saw her children, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren divided, like so many sheep, without being gratified with the small privilege of a single word as to their or her own destiny.

Douglass uses the imagery of sheep in this excerpt for what purpose?

A:to describe how enslaved persons were treated like animals
B:to explain how helpless he felt when he was sold to another master
C:to illustrate how kind and gentle Douglass’s grandmother was
D:to describe how many children Douglass’s grandmother had