Which answer best reflects the author's reason for writing Chapter 11 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass? to lament the friends and family he left in the South to explain why he cannot tell others of the exact method of his escape to express in great detail how he escaped the South to call attention to the people who helped him escape from the South

To explain why he cannot tell others of the exact method of his escape.

Explanation:

In his autobiographical memoir "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass", former slave Frederick Douglass reveals his life as a slave and how he got his freedom. He then later became a huge supporter of the abolition of slavery and would work towards the freedom of slaves.

In the last part of the memoir, Chapter 11 reveals his canceled plan of revealing the exact method of his escape. He had planned to tell the exact manner of his own escape but then decided again that it will only lead to more serious issues that might hinder or reveal the escape plans of other slaves. He admits "such a statement would most undoubtedly induce greater vigilance on the part of slaveholders than has existed heretofore among them; which would, of course, be the means of guarding a door whereby some dear brother bondman might escape his galling chains", thereby revealing the secrets of any escape plans of other slaves.

Thus, the main purpose of Chapter 11 seems to be that he wants to explain why he couldn't reveal the exact methods of his escape to guarantee the security of other slaves and their plans of escape.

how did the pendleton civil service act weaken the spoils system after president garfield died?

the act forced federal employees to pass competitive exams.

the act said that federal employees could be fired for political reasons.

the act said that company contracts and kickbacks were illegal.

the act stopped the reform movement in its tracks.

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.