“The Story of My Life” and “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” share many ideas about the human condition/character. What is a major central idea that is shared by both passages? Explain the importance of the shared central idea for each narrator. Use details from both passages to support your response.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination