Question

1. read the passage and answer the question. we believe if you would try the experiment of taking a few black children, and cultivate their minds with the same care, and let them have the same prospect in view, as to living in the world, as you would wish for your own children, you would find upon the trial, they were not inferior in mental endowments. -excerpt from a narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in philadelphia, in the year 1793 what argument did absalom jones and richard allen make in the passage? they wanted to disprove the idea that blacks were intellectually inferior. they wanted white people to stop experiments on black children. they called for private schools for black children. they thought that black children could excel if raised alongside white children.

Explanation:

The passage argues that with the same care and prospects as for white - children, black children are not intellectually inferior. This is an attempt to disprove the idea of black intellectual inferiority.

Answer:

They wanted to disprove the idea that Blacks were intellectually inferior.