In the passage, Frederick Douglass mainly employs pathos. He evokes strong emotional responses by vividly describing the brutal realities of slavery, highlighting the suffering and dehumanization that enslaved individuals endure. This appeals to the audience's emotions and helps to convey the moral outrage against the institution of slavery.
"What, To a Slave, is the Fourth of July?"
by Frederick Douglass
What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength than such 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, Frederick Douglass mainly employs
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ethos.
ethos.
antithesis.
antithesis.
logos.
logos.
pathos.
pathos.
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