Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
I was eager to hear any one speak of slavery. I was a ready listener. Every little while, I could hear something about the abolitionists. It was some time before I found what the word meant. It was always used in such connections as to make it an interesting word to me. If a slave ran away and succeeded in getting clear, or if a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did any thing very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder, it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition. Hearing the word in this connexion very often, I set about learning what it meant. The dictionary afforded me little or no help. I found it was "the act of abolishing;" but then I did not know what was to be abolished. Here I was perplexed.
Douglass’s purpose in this excerpt is to
A. argue against abolition.****
B. explain his discovery of abolition.
C. teach the history of abolition.
D. define the word “abolition.”
The correct answer is B. explain his discovery of abolition.
D. define the word "abolition."
In this excerpt, Frederick Douglass is sharing his personal experience of coming across the word "abolition" and his confusion about its meaning. He explains that he often heard the word in reference to slaves who ran away or committed acts considered wrong by slaveholders. He became interested in understanding the word's meaning and consulted the dictionary, but found little help there. Douglass's purpose in this excerpt is to describe his journey of discovering the meaning of the word "abolition."
why not just answer da question broski
Definitely not A! https://www.dictionary.com/browse/abolition?s=t
Please reread everything carefully and rethink.