English

Tate

16 April, 17:39

Read the except.

"Every little while, I could hear something about the abolitionists. It was some time before I found what the word meant. It was always used in such connections as to make it an interesting word to me. If a slave ran away and succeeded in getting clear, or if a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did any thing very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder, it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition.

-Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,

Frederick Douglass"

Use your knowledge of context clues, word roots, and affixes to determine the meaning of the word abolitionist.

A. a person who likes to set fires

B. a person who wants to take slavery away

C. a slave resisting his or her owner

D. a slave fighting back against his or her masters - Already chose that and its incorrect