What is Frederick Douglass’ main purpose in the speech? A to demonstrate why African Americans should be valued for their military successes

B to advocate that African Americans deserve the right to vote after their service to the country

C to explain African Americans’ loyalty to their country despite the years of hardships that they’ve overcome

D to argue that African Americans are owed compensation for the years of enslavement that they’ve endured

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.