Which excerpt is a counterclaim in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Answer
A
What is this but the acknowledgment that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is conceded.
B
There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.
C
It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write.
D
Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? That he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it.