Why does gates include a discussion of hume, descartes, and other philosophers of the enlightenment? to support the jeffersonian point of view to support his argument about racial differences to explain past perceptions of race and humanity to explain references used in some of wheatley’s poetry

to explain past perceptions of race and humanity. I had this question on a quiz and this was the correct answer.

Syllable added to a root word to change its meaning : affixan independent word--example run,walk,book : free morphemeaffix that gives grammatical meaning such as tense or number : inflectiona word part that must attach to a word in order to be usable : bound morphemedegree of comparison formed by adding -er or more to an adjective : comparativedegree of comparison formed by adding -est or most to an adjective : superlativeaffix added to the beginning of a word : prefixaffix added to the end of a word : suffixroot word of lovable : lovetwo roots used together to form one word : combining form