Question

let any man in our highly favored country, undertake to organize an army of raw recruits, and especially let any colored man undertake to organize men of his own color, and subject them to military discipline, and he will at once see the hard task that ______ had on hand, in resisting france and slavery, and be held to admire the ability and character displayed by her sons in making and managing her armies and achieving her freedom.
—frederick douglass, 1893⁶
a. cuba
b. haiti
c. guatemala
d. mexico

Explanation:

Haiti (then Saint-Domingue) was the site of a successful enslaved and free Black rebellion against French colonial rule and slavery, resulting in its independence in 1804. Frederick Douglass, a prominent abolitionist, would reference this landmark struggle of a Black nation overcoming both France and slavery, which aligns with the text's focus on organizing Black recruits to resist those forces.

Answer:

B. Haiti