PLEASE HELP
Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass.
We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and
women, old and young, married and single, were ranked
with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and
men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the
same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to
the same narrow examination. Silvery-headed age and
sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the
same indelicate inspection.
Which answer choice best states Douglass's purpose in
this excerpt?
O to demand payment from slaveholders for their crimes
O to show how children were treated better than elderly
people
O to compare his experience with that of other enslaved
persons
O to describe how people were degraded and treated
inhumanely