Read these lines: "The men and women slaves received, as their monthly allowance of food, eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal. Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes; the whole of which could not have cost more than seven dollars." According to the quoted lines, the entire yearly clothing was worth

1. The quoted lines separate two allowances: food by the month, clothing by the year. 2. The clothing list is closed with the note that the whole of it could not have cost more than seven dollars. 3. Seven dollars at the very most is that figure, option B. 4. The pork and the corn meal belong to the monthly food allowance, not to the clothing, and no figure of twelve dollars appears anywhere. _Source: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), public domain_