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Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and ciphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian’s God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!

Based on the excerpt above, what was most likely true about this time in the nation’s history?



Whaling was the most profitable industry for African Americans.

Ships were the primary means of transporting goods for African Americans.

African Americans were performing the same duties as others without the same rights.

More industries were created by African Americans during this period than any other time in our nation’s history.

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The correct option is: African Americans were performing the same duties as others without the same rights.

In this way, we can infer by the excerpt given above that this was true about that time in American history.

MrDonovan

Answer:

African Americans were performing the same duties as others without the same rights.

Explanation:

This speech, given by Frederick Douglas during 1852, was symbolic of United States during the middle of the 19th century. During this time, millions of African Americans were enslaved and forced to work on plantations. At this time, many slaves were considered property and not people. Even though these slaves did the same labor as other citizens, they had almost no rights in terms of politics or economics. This is why Douglas writes this speech. His goal is to show the contradictions within American society.

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