Which excerpt is historical evidence that supports Achebe's claim about why Heart of Darkness is popular despite its racist elements?
O Travelers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves. But even those not blinkered, like Conrad, with
xenophobia, can be astonishingly blind."
O A few weeks later I received two very touching Intters from high school children in Yonkers, New York, who-bless their
teacher-had just read Things Fall Apart."
O "For did not that erudite British historian and Regius Professor at Oxford, Hugh Trevor Roper, also pronounce that African
history did not exist?
O "We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. We could have
fancied ourselves the first of men taking possession of an accursed inheritance."

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival.what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader