Question

Reread the following sentences: “They were not so much responsible for the curse under which I was born, as the God of nature and the fathers who framed the Constitution for the United States. The law descended to them, and it was but natural that they should recognize it, since it manifestly was their interest to do so. And yet a wrong was inflicted upon me; a cruel custom deprived me of my liberty, and since I was robbed of my dearest right, I would not have been human had I not rebelled against the robbery.”

A. Who is Keckley referring to as “they”? Replace the word “they” in the sentences with the noun. Then circle “yet” and “since” in the third sentence.


B. What does Keckley describe in the first two sentences?


C. How do these three sentences describe Keckley’s ideas about slavery?

Answer 1

A. Who is Keckley referring to as “they”? Replace the word “they” in the sentences with the noun. Then circle “yet” and “since” in the third sentence.

“They” could be the people of the South Keckley refers to in the previous

sentence, some of them slaveholders.

B. What does Keckley describe in the first two sentences?

She doesn’t blame southerners for holding slaves because they were just doing what they had been brought up to believe was right.

C. How do these three sentences describe Keckley’s ideas about slavery?

She is sympathetic toward southern slaveholders, but at the same time believes slavery to be wrong.

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