Throughout the excerpt “What, to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” the author Frederick Douglass employs rhetorical devices such as logos, ethos, and syntax to demonstrate how the white American was repressive towards the black Americans and how the white Americans dehumanize the slaves. He also expresses how ironic it was to have chains on the neck in one place while the Americans celebrate their freedom from the British. In the excerpt, Douglass implies logos to complement the white American on how they torture the slaves physically and mentally. An example of this action is in the first paragraph: “Whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday… If I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow of this day.” Douglass uses this
