Lucas M. answered • 06/20/19
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Answer Choice B is the correct answer because Lines 3-4 say of Banks’s policy that it “makes the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 a mockery and delusion” and, in Lines 15, that “it defeats the beneficent intention of the Government, if it has beneficent intentions, in regards to the freedom of our people.” These lines tell us clearly how Douglass characterizes Banks’s policy and matches Answer Choice B which says that it is, “contrary to the purpose of the government’s abolition of slavery.”Answer Choice A is incorrect because Banks’s opposition towards slavery is never mentioned, and Douglass never makes the case that his policy is incosistent with such a stance. Answer Choice C is incorrect because, while Douglass does describe the policy as “absolute slavery,” he never makes the point that it is “worse in many respects.” Answer Choice D is incorrect because Douglass never makes the point that the policy is an imporvement on slavery, even if he does say that it isn’t ideal.
How to solve this? The Question asks, “In Passage 1, Douglass characterizes Banks’s labor policy in Louisiana as [...]?” To solve this, we should go back to the Passage and look for any texts that tell us about his attitude towards the policy. In the first paragraph, Douglass makes two specific claims about the policy. In Lines 1-4 he describes it as the “chief danger at the present moment; that it practically enslaves the Negro, and makes the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 a mockery and delusion.” In Lines 15-18, he says that the policy “defeats the beneficent intention of the Government, if it has beneficent intentions, in regards to the freedom of our people.” So, we see that Douglass views the policy as negative, as nearly identical to slavery, and as working counter to the Emancipation Proclamation, and we should expect our answer choice to relate to this.
Answer Choice A says [...].
