During the time of the anti slavery cause, Mary Ann Shadd Cary utilizes rhetorical techniques to persuade her audience to establish the importance of her newspaper, The Provincial Freeman. She does so by the assertion of personification and persuasion. Cary starts off with personification to give her audience a sense of having her newspaper is a newspaper. “As the great country grow, we grow with it; as it improves and progresses, we are carried forward on the bosom of its onward tide.” (Cary 6-8) The observation of the human trait is being personified and the bosom of a non living object, the country. This enhances her article, allowing people to relate to the idea or the proposed statement. Also, her argument is logical and arranged in
