The one thing I remember most when I think about our US history is a hateful time period. That time period is when the US allowed Americans to own African Americans. Mostly know as slavery. Frederick Douglass in his book titled “Narrative Of Frederick Douglass”(1845) uses three good appeals by explaining how he reached his goals of proving that slavery was a very hard time for him best through emotion and factual appeals to explain how slavery was back in the day and how he gained his freedom and moved to New York.
One of the appeals that got me most was when he says “slaves were like farm equipment.” For some reason that really lit a fire under my butt. This is because you knew it was practically true because back in those days the whites never did any hands on work while being on the farm that had to do with manual labor. For example, you and I both know that lets say the his owner needed a new rock wall build to keep the animals from getting out. From everything I’ve heard if it wasn’t exactly how he wanted it he’d whip the piss out of …show more content…
For example, Douglass uses the appeal saying “ their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.”pg(45) So pretty much what they’d do is once they found out that the slaves liked drinking, they’d have a contest. So what that game consisted of was they’d ask who can drink this many bottles and how fast? So of course the slaves all raced to do it well all of the would get sick a puke their guts out. So when the next time they had time off came around they didn’t wanna drink anymore because it made them so sick last time. For me that really pissed me off cause they literally tried ruining everything the slaves enjoyed. So honestly that really pisses me off. Like their life’s are already terrible. Let them enjoy
One of the appeals that got me most was when he says “slaves were like farm equipment.” For some reason that really lit a fire under my butt. This is because you knew it was practically true because back in those days the whites never did any hands on work while being on the farm that had to do with manual labor. For example, you and I both know that lets say the his owner needed a new rock wall build to keep the animals from getting out. From everything I’ve heard if it wasn’t exactly how he wanted it he’d whip the piss out of …show more content…
For example, Douglass uses the appeal saying “ their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.”pg(45) So pretty much what they’d do is once they found out that the slaves liked drinking, they’d have a contest. So what that game consisted of was they’d ask who can drink this many bottles and how fast? So of course the slaves all raced to do it well all of the would get sick a puke their guts out. So when the next time they had time off came around they didn’t wanna drink anymore because it made them so sick last time. For me that really pissed me off cause they literally tried ruining everything the slaves enjoyed. So honestly that really pisses me off. Like their life’s are already terrible. Let them enjoy