Which excerpt from the autobiography best demonstrates douglass's main idea that violence is used to intimidate the slaves?
a. "i spent that day mostly in the woods, having the alternative before me,—to go home and be whipped to death, or stay in the woods and be starved to death."

b. "a city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. he is much better fed and clothed, and enjoys privileges altogether unknown to a slave on the plantation."

c. "added to the cruel lashings to which these slaves were subjected, they were kept nearly half-starved. they seldom knew what it was to eat a full meal."

d. "the children were then called, like so many pigs, and like so many pigs they would come and devour the mush; some with oyster-shells, others with a piece of shingle, some with naked hands, and none with spoons."

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explanation:

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.