Read these lines: "I found in it a dialogue between a master and his s…

Question

Read these lines: "I found in it a dialogue between a master and his slave. The slave was represented as having run away from his master three times. In this dialogue, the whole argument in behalf of slavery was brought forward by the master, all of which was disposed of by the slave. The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder." According to the quoted lines, what did the narrator take from the dialogue?

Accepted Answer

B. That truth could work upon a slaveholder's own conscience

1. The quoted lines summarise the argument: the master puts the case for slavery and the slave disposes of it.
2. The narrator then states the moral he drew in his own words.
3. That moral is the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder, which is option B.
4. Option C states the opposite of what the dialogue does, since it is the master's argument that is defeated.
5. Option A picks up the detail of three escapes and mistakes a plot fact for the moral.
_Source: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), public domain_

Answer

That running away three times was the surest plan of all

Answer

That masters usually won their arguments with their slaves

Answer

That a written argument was safer than a spoken argument