Which of the following is a key provision of the Fourteenth Amendment? •a. It protects all citizens' freedom of speech.
•b. It defines citizenship.
•c. It abolishes slavery.
•d. It explains that people who fought for the South in the Civil War will never be allowed to hold office in the United States.

Maria Stewart gathered her courage and addressed a group of black women in Boston.

Explanation:

“I am also one of the wretched and miserable daughters of the descendants of fallen Africa,” she declared in one address. “Do you ask, why are you wretched and miserable? I reply, look at many of the most worthy and interesting of us doomed to spend our lives in gentlemen’s kitchens. Look at our young men, smart, active and energetic, with souls filled with ambitious fire; if they look forward, alas! what are their