Question

Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.

How does Stanton use pathos as a rhetorical appeal?

by describing one young woman’s unfulfilled potential
by emphasizing the injustices endured by women
by explaining laws that govern marriages
by establishing her authority to question the status quo

Answer 1

by emphasizing the injustices endured by women

Stanton appeals to readers' emotions (sympathy and outrage) by describing a "long train of abuses" and "patient sufferance," which frames women as wronged and compelled to demand equal rights.