Question

in which of the following quotations from douglasss fourth of july speech does ouglass offer evidence to support his claim that enslaved persons are human beings, not brutes?
to the slave, your celebration of the fourth of july is a sham, your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery...
what am i to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters?
is it not astonishing that while we are ploughing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!
to drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony

Explanation:

The third option provides evidence of enslaved persons' human - like activities (ploughing, planting, using tools, etc.) which supports the claim that they are human beings, not brutes. The first option focuses on the hypocrisy of the celebration. The second option is more of a rhetorical question about the wrongness of making men brutes rather than providing direct evidence. The fourth option is about the irony of calling enslaved people to join in celebrations.

Answer:

Is it not astonishing that while we are ploughing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!