Question:
Which statement describes the argument that Equiano is making in this passage?
Passage:
"O, ye nominal Christians! Might not an African ask you -- Learned you this from your God, who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you? Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice? Are the dearest friends and relations, now rendered more dear by their separation from their kindred, still to be parted from each other, and thus prevented from cheering the gloom of slavery, with the small comfort of being together, and mingling their sufferings and sorrows? Why are parents to lose their children, brothers their sisters, or husbands their wives? Surely, this is a new refinement in cruelty, which, while it has no advantage to atone for it, thus aggravates distress, and adds fresh horrors even to the wretchedness of slavery."
Given answers:
-The trade of enslaved people is too profitable to ever be illegal.
- Most people are kind and friendly, even if they are involved in the trade of enslaved people.
-Christian beliefs support the trade of enslaved people.
-The people involved in the trade of enslaved people have no right to call themselves Christians.