Former slave, Harriet Jacobs in the excerpts her from book “incident in the life of a slave girl. Argues that using pathos and emotion to appeal to her audience is an effective tactic. She supports her claims by first describing incidents of her masters abuse with detail, then by repeating what she can not do because of her master, then by describing two sisters playing together, and finally she describes all the things she could have had if she was not a slave. Harriet jacob’s goal is to persuade her reader into ending slavery. Jacobs purpose was to convince whites people in the north to help end slavery, and she first does this by using imagery to show her readers what she experienced. The first example of this is when jacobs
