Definitely not A! https://www.dictionary.com/browse/abolition?s=t
Please reread everything carefully and rethink.
Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
I was eager to hear any one speak of slavery. I was a ready listener. Every little while, I could hear something about the abolitionists. It was some time before I found what the word meant. It was always used in such connections as to make it an interesting word to me. If a slave ran away and succeeded in getting clear, or if a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did any thing very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder, it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition. Hearing the word in this connexion very often, I set about learning what it meant. The dictionary afforded me little or no help. I found it was "the act of abolishing;" but then I did not know what was to be abolished. Here I was perplexed.
Douglass’s purpose in this excerpt is to
A. argue against abolition.****
B. explain his discovery of abolition.
C. teach the history of abolition.
D. define the word “abolition.”
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