Frederick Douglass And Erson Letter Analysis

Two letters are being introduced from two former slaves. Fredrick Douglas and Jourdan Anderson. In their letter they are both responding back to their former slave masters who have made contact with them. Throughout the letter it consists of tone, purpose and audience .

The purpose for Fredrick Douglas and Jourdan Anderson both is to get their point across to the reader so they understand and in both of their letters they do. Fredrick Douglas wants to let his former slave master know that he has forgiven him and he does “I shall no longer regard you as an enemy to freedom, nor to myself- but shall hail you as a friend to both” Douglas has come to the point where he has done the boldest thing and not only forgiven him but as well as wanting …show more content…
In both letters from Douglas and Anderson use tone completely different. Douglas tone tends to come off in a more calm yet joyous tone throughout the whole letter “I propose to celebrate this 11th anniversary of my escape from your dominion, by addressing to you a friendly epistle on the subject of slavery” as Douglas stated he was being friendly and also stated his letter with celebrating, his tone just shows how his emotion is kind and throughout the letter there is not even a hint of malicious behavior. As for Anderson within his letter he involves not only sarcasm but also a type of humorous bold tone. “ Sir I got your letter… thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this.”As you can tell when he writes it is even as if he holds some truth in what he says and he has no problem saying it at all , he becomes frank and it also comes off as …show more content…
Although they’re reaching out to the masters you can tell they are reaching out to a wider audience. “Publicly identify yourself” Douglas did not only want this letter to be known to be personal but wanted for the slave master to put himself out and put pressure on him to rise to the challenge which was given to him by showing himself for who really was. He also wanted to show how they can be friendly and civil as well as the fact that it will become know and spread all over showing a change happening. As for Anderson his letter was published twice to the public, by doing this the public became more aware and he wanted this “Thought the Yankees would have hanged you” Anderson intentionally put this in to purposely let the public know of his doing as well as show the former master he isn’t afraid of saying anything and as a freed man he will no longer