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why did it take just six weeks for a keelboat to float down the mississippi to new orleans but four months to make the return trip?

a. keelboats carried a much heavier load on the return trip.
b. the return trip was upstream, against the flow of the river.
c. a keelboat's steam engine worked better with the wind than against it
d. once the goods had been delivered to new orleans, there was no hurry to get home.

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. what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader