Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

Question

Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for Republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of
logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the
principle of justice, hard to be understood?

What do the rhetorical questions in the excerpt suggest?

A. Douglass does not want to discuss slavery further.

B. Slavery is a highly divisive and complicated issue.

C. Douglass is uncertain about slavery's wrongfulness.

D. The wrongfulness of slavery should be obvious.

Answer 1

The rhetorical questions in the excerpt suggest:

D. The wrongfulness of slavery should be obvious.

Frederick Douglass is implying that the wrongness of slavery shouldn't need to be debated or justified, as it is a clear moral issue.