In the passage provided, Frederick Douglass mainly employs pathos. He elicits an emotional response by vividly describing the brutal realities of slavery and the suffering it inflicts on individuals, which aims to evoke feelings of outrage and empathy from his audience. This emotional appeal reinforces his argument against slavery and highlights the disconnect between the celebration of freedom on the Fourth of July and the continued oppression of enslaved people.
"What, To a Slave, isthe Fourth of July?"
by Frederick Douglass
What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make menbrutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work themwithout wages, to keep them ignorant of theirrelations to their fellow men, to beat them withsticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load theirlimbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell themat auction, to sunder their families, to knock out theirteeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them intoobedience and submission to their masters? Must Iargue that a system thus marked with blood, andstained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I havebetter employment for my time and strength thansuch arguments would imply.
What, to a Slave, is the Fourth of July?
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Use the passage to answer the question.
To make his point about slavery, FrederickDouglass mainly employs
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ethos.
logos.
antithesis.
pathos.
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