Question

Read the excerpt from Frederick Douglass's speech on

the emancipation of women.
(1) Woman does not ask man for the right of suffrage.
(2) That is something which man has no power to give.
(3) Rights do not have their source in the will or the
grace of man... . All that woman can properly ask man
to do in this case, and all that man can do, is to get out
of the way, to take his obstructive forces of fines and
imprisonment and his obstructive usages out of the
way, and let woman express her sentiments at the polls
and in the government, equally with himself. (4) Give
her fair play and let her alone.
Which sentence provides evidence that men were
hindering women's right to vote?
O sentence 1
O sentence 2
sentence 3
sentence 4

Answer 1

Sentence 3 provides evidence of men hindering women's right to vote.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence that provides evidence that men were hindering women's right to vote is sentence 3. In this sentence, Frederick Douglass states that women's rights do not originate from the will or grace of men, and that men should remove their obstructive forces and usages that prevent women from expressing their sentiments at the polls and in government. This suggests that men are actively hindering women's right to vote by imposing fines, imprisonment, and other obstacles.

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