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she told them about frederick douglass, the most famous of the escaped slaves, of his eloquence, of his magnificent appearance. then she told them of her own first vain effort at running away, evoking the memory of that miserable life she had led as a child, reliving it for a moment in the telling.

but they had been tired too long, hungry too long, afraid too long, footsore too long. one of them suddenly cried out in despair, "let me go back. it is better to be a slave than to suffer like this in order to be free."

—harriet tubman, conductor on the
underground railroad, ann petry

why was this strategy not effective?

the runaways believed that douglass was greater than them.
they didn’t trust the story tubman was telling them, so she wasn’t believable.
douglass’s story made the runaways believe freedom was very difficult to achieve.
the runaways were so miserable that the authority of the speaker didn’t matter.

the runaways were so miserable that the authority of the speaker didn’t matter. it is c bud

Explanation:

all you need to do is read the passage and you will get good luck

option d is correct. corroborated sources of historical evidence   is necessary to validate a claim about an event in history.

historians tend to use written sources, but audio and visual materials as well as artifacts are important objects that supply information to modern historians.

historical sources are usually divided into two categories: primary and secondary sources. depending on the historian's intent, some sources shift their designation. determining what type of sources toimplement, and the level of credibility and reliability of those sources, is a significant step in critical thinking for the historian.

explanation:

frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. but frederick disliked rifle shooting and horseback riding. unlike his father, he was interested in french literature. he enjoyed poetry and music and, like some others of the enlightenment, he scoffed at religion. his father thought him soft, frivolous and unmindful of his duties. and when frederick refused to put his signature on a right to succession, for a few moments his father strangled him.