Read this sentence from the excerpt I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful
robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and
stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to
slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most
wicked of men.
Which statement best explains why Douglass uses charged
language, such as loathed, meanest, and wicked, to advance his
purpose?
to show the reader how slave owners felt about
slaves
to suggest how far slave owners traveled to acquire
slaves
O to help the reader feel the same anger as Douglass
to share Douglass's knowledge on how slaves were
acquired