Read these lines: "Few privileges were esteemed higher, by the slaves of the out-farms, than that of being selected to do errands at the Great House Farm. It was associated in their minds with greatness. A representative could not be prouder of his election to a seat in the American Congress, than a slave on one of the out-farms would be of his election to do errands at the Great House Farm." The comparison with a seat in Congress works mainly to

1. The privilege being described is small in itself: permission to carry errands to another farm. 2. The quoted lines set that small errand beside the proudest public honour the narrator can name, a seat in Congress. 3. The two sides of the comparison are wildly unequal in fact, so the point cannot be that they are equal in importance. 4. What they are equal in is the pride felt, which is exactly how much a small privilege could weigh, option D. 5. Option B reads the comparison as a claim about power, but errands carry no power at all. 6. Options A and C treat the elections as literal, when the quoted lines use election as a borrowed word for being chosen. _Source: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), public domain_