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Analyzing the Use of Imagery
"We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with
horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same
rank in the scale of being, and all were subjected to the same narrow examination. Silvery-headed age and sprightly
youth, maids and matrons had to undergo the same indelicate inspection. At this moment, I saw more clearly than
ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon both slave and slaveholder"
When Douglass says that "silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the
same indelicate inspection," what contrast is Douglass creating?
Douglass is contrasting the way young people were treated to the way to older people were treated.
Douglass is contrasting the way people were treated to the way animals were treated.
Douglass is contrasting people's physical appearance to their negative treatment.
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