Which choice best illustrates Frederick Douglass's
viewpoint in the passage?
People enslaved in a city are better educated than
those on a plantation.
A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave
on the plantation. He is much better fed and clothed, and
enjoys privileges altogether unknown to the slave on the
plantation. There is a vestige of decency, a sense of
shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks
of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the
plantation. He is a desperate slaveholder, who will shock
the humanity of his non-slaveholding neighbors with the
cries of his lacerated slave.
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Frederick Douglass
People enslaved in cities are treated better because
slaveholders worry what others think.
People enslaved in cities are treated worse than
people enslaved on plantations.
Life is the same for enslaved people whether in the
city or on a plantation.