Banneker drew attention to the conflicts between the tenets of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the continued practice of slavery in this letter.
Banneker means greatness was renown.
Thus, Option D is correct.
"Freely and Cheerfully acknowledge," Banneker said, "that I am of the African race." Banneker urged Jefferson to stop the "State of oppressive thraldom, and horrible captivity, to which too many of my brethren are bound," despite the fact that he was not a slave himself.
Banneker referred to Jefferson's "measurably friendly and well-disposed" attitude toward black people and implied that he would "readily grab any opportunity to remove that stream of silly and wrong thoughts and opinions which so often prevail with respect to us."
Banneker began by criticizing Jefferson's earlier statements about the inferiority of black people before stating that writing to Jefferson was "a liberty which Seemed to me scarcely allowable".
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