Pl help I’ll mark branilest Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass
If any one thing in my experience, more than another,
served to deepen my conviction of the infernal
character of slavery, and to fill me with unutterable
loathing of slaveholders, it was their base ingratitude to
my poor old grandmother. She had served thay old
master faithfully from youth to old age. She had been
the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his
plantation with slaves; she had become a great-
grandmother in his service. She had rocked him in
infancy, attended him in childhood, served him through
life, and at his death wiped from his icy brow the cold
death-sweat, and closed his eyes forever.
Douglass's purpose in this excerpt is to
O praise the kindness and faithfulness of his
grandmother.
O mourn the death of a master who had been kind to
him.
o provide an example of the torment enslaved persons
endure.
O argue that enslaved persons should be set free
when their master dies.