AnswersELA11 ELA 11 Sem 1 26-27Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1Question 13
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Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1

Question 13 • [ELA11] ELA 11, Sem 1 (26-27)

Which excerpt is a counterclaim in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

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A
What is this but the acknowledgment that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is conceded.
B
There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.
C
It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write.
D
What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken?

Explanation

A counterclaim presents an opposing viewpoint that the speaker can challenge. Choice D raises the pro-slavery claim that slavery is divine and was established by God, then questions that claim. The other excerpts mainly describe evidence of enslaved people’s humanity or the unequal treatment and restrictions they faced.

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