Read this excerpt from "The People Could Fly."
Another and another fell from the heat. Toby was there. He cried out to the fallen and reached his arms out to them. "Kum kunka yali, kum... tambe!" Whispers and sighs. And they too rose on the air. They rode the hot breezes. The ones flyin were black and shinin sticks, wheelin above the head of the Overseer. They crossed the rows, the fields, the fences, the streams, and were away.
"Seize the old man!" cried the Overseer. "I heard him say the magic words. Seize him!"
The one callin himself Master come runnin. The Driver got his whip ready to curl around old Toby and tie him up. The slaveowner took his hip gun from its place. He meant to kill old, black Toby.
But Toby just laughed. Say he threw back his head and said, "Hee, hee! Don't you know who I am? Don't you know some of us in this field?" He said it to their faces. "We are ones who fly!"
Read this excerpt from "My Escape from Slavery."
But I had a friend-a sailor-who owned a sailor's protection, which answered somewhat the purpose of free papers-describing his person, and certifying to the fact that he was a free American sailor. The instrument had at its head the American eagle, which gave it the appearance at once of an authorized document.
Both the fictional text in "The People Could Fly" and nonfictional text in "My Escape from Slavery" show that:
A. enslaved people often needed help from others to become free.
B. enslaved people often felt frightened about escaping from slavery.
C. the Underground Railroad helped many people gain their freedom.
D. the path to freedom was filled with isolation, loneliness, and danger.