In the excerpt you read from chapter 1 of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, what was the author's purpose?

Question 11 options:

a)

To honor his Aunt Hester's courage in disobeying her slave master


b)

To detail the experience of African American women on Southern plantations


c)

To demonstrate the power black slave women had over white slave masters


d)

To highlight the everyday cruelty towards slaves living on plantations