The excerpt below is from the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. I have often been asked, how I felt when first I found myself on free soil...A new world had opened
upon meI lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement
which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, 1
said: "I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions."
Which problem did Frederick Douglass expose in this excerpt?
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A the need to preserve of the rule of law
B the survival of slave families in the South
C the existence of a nation that was half slave and half free
D the threat to American independence from foreign powers