NEED IT ASAP PART A: Which of the following identifies the central idea of the text? *
Though Lincoln played a significant role in abolishing slavery, Douglass was primarily responsible for this outcome.
Lincoln found Douglass’s approach to abolishing slavery to be too radical and often had to intervene to maintain peace.
Douglass and Lincoln’s primary objective during the Civil War was to abolish slavery, at whatever cost.
Despite their different approaches and opinions on slavery, both Lincoln and Douglass contributed to abolishing it.

When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Frederick      107

Douglass, in his mid-forties, was America’s most influential  

black citizen. For the rest of his long life, he continued in his  

speeches and writings to be a powerful voice for social  

justice, denouncing racism and demanding equal rights for

blacks and whites alike. During the Reconstruction era of

the 1870s and 1880s, when many of the rights gained after  

emancipation were snatched away in the South, Douglass

spoke out against lynchings, the terrorism of the Ku Klux

Klan, and the Jim Crow laws that were devised to keep

blacks in their place and away from the ballot box.

Explanation:

the answer should be b.

explanation:

it should be b because she researched before writing so it would be in past tense. "the author researches her subject before she had written the first draft.