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Sorry And here's your smoke too Sure brought to you

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by neighbors with slaves And you thought your neighbors were

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bad No Jackal following passage Slavery maryland My bondage my

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grade Really really I'm not sure to refute that sergeant

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You're such a secluded dark and out of the way

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place Let's read this excerpt from the selection nearly all

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the plantations or farms in the vicinity of the home

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plantation of colonel lloyd belonged to him and those which

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do not are owned by personal friends of his as

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deeply interested in maintaining the slave system in all its

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rigor as colonel lloyd himself some of his neighbour's air

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said to be even more stringent than he which of

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the following is the best way to express the meaning

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of the word stringent in this sentence and hear the

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potential answers We'll be needing your laid back All right

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well if we know the definition of stringent then this

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one's cakewalk which is apparently a very easy way to

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procure k a zip going to the store and just

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buying a cake weren't easy enough already Now of course

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you may have forgotten what stringent means or we may

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have been picking belly button lint and they went over

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that in class Stop doing that for the record which

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month have never picked belly button lint class Anyway the

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good news is that we can still get this question

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right even if we don't know the definition all we

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have to know is that this section of the passage

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is all about how the colonel's neighbors are just a

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hard core about slavery as he is douglas says that

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some of them might even be stricter than colonel lloyd

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himself knowing this makes answer b and easy elimination at

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this point in history slavery was a well established way

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of life While these slave owners were just going with

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the grain open minded people began to oppose the idea

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Plus people who think it's cool to enslave other human

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beings are kind of the opposite of free thinking definitely

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won't see any pro slavery people embraced at an occupy

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rally anytime soon Well we can't get behind choice dean

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either Sure the south had a reputation for being laid

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back It wasn't hard to take things easy when they're

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slaves were doing all the work The thing is that

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this section focuses how intense the colonel's neighbors are about

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slavery and how chilled out they are option a claims

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that stringent means wealthy While this one might seem tempting

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since the colonel and his slave owning neighbors obviously did

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pretty well for themselves the choice a still has to

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be A No go this past dozen Zero in on

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how rich these people are it's talking about how harsh

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their version of slavery is check it out Answer C

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is just what we've been looking for stringent means strict

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or severe But even if we didn't know that the

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context lets us know that we're looking for a word

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that describes the harsh version of slavery practice by the

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colonel and his neighbors here's one block party We'd rather 00:02:48.668 --> [endTime] not be invited tio

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