2. When Douglass mentions "the forces in operation“ in Paragraph 12, he most likely referring to
A) speeches like this one presented by the Anti-Slavery Society.
B) the abolition movement and the underground railroad.
C) the Westward Expansion of the United States.
D) special forces of covert agents that will disrupt slave trading.

Frederick Douglas was a former slave who spoke for abolitionism and black rights.
He was criticizing the celebration of Independencia in the US, stating that he had nothing to celebrate, since the country did not provide freedom for him and the other negros.
To confirm this argument, he showed his listeners how slavery was a violent, heinous, and unacceptable system.

However, he claims that there are "forces in operation" to end slavery. These forces were the abolitionist movement, which was proving very strong, and the underground railroad, which was a term given to a network of secret routes and hiding places through which the blacks could escape.

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