Why did frederick douglass spend three days washing in the creek before he left for baltimore?

a. because master lloyd wanted him to look presentable for the sale
b. because a new girl he liked had just arrived
c. because he had spent the day before in the pig pen
d. because mrs. lucretia told him he had to clean himself up

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. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination