I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men. Which statement best explains why Douglass uses charged language, such as loathed, meanest, and wicked, to advance his purpose?

to suggest how far slave owners traveled to acquire slaves

to share Douglass's knowledge on how slaves were acquired

to help the reader feel the same anger as Douglass

to show the reader how slave owners felt about slaves