The Hypocrisy of American Slavery True or False

1. Who is Douglass quoting when he says, "I will not equivocate—I will not excuse"? -> William Lloyd Garrison
2. "In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the 'lame man leap as a ______.'" What might the lame man leap as? -> Jackrabbit
3. "If I do forget, if I do not remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, 'may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!'" Who are the "bleeding children of sorrow"? -> Slaves in America
4. "My subject, then, fellow citizens, is '_____.'" What is Douglass' subject? -> American Slavery
5. "And let me warn you, that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation (_____) whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin." Which nation is Douglass referring to? -> Babylon

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