Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? What is the purpose of this rhetorical question as it used by Douglass?

Douglass’s question does not seek information from his audience; he goes on to answer it himself. It introduces the central idea that the Fourth of July’s celebration of freedom means something very different to enslaved people, exposing the contradiction between American ideals and slavery. The correct choice is “It is designed to introduce an idea.”

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