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A Speech Given By Frederick Douglass
Title: A Speech Given By Frederick Douglass
Category: History
Details: Words: 994 | Pages: 4.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Speech Given By Frederick Douglass
FREDERICK DOUGLASS’S POWERS OF APPEAL
After his escape from slavery, Frederick Douglass chose to promote the abolition of slavery by speaking about the actions and effects that result from that institution. In an excerpt from a July 5, 1852 speech at Rochester, New York, Douglass asks the question: What to the slave is the Fourth of July? This question is a bold one, and it demands attention. The effectiveness of his oration is derived from the …showed first 75 words of 994 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 994 total…if the country they so loved chained them to a life of servitude? Finally, what would all the work to support a family and desire for self-improvement have accomplished if it only benefited a master, but not a wife and children? Douglass deliberately addresses those aspects of life that mean the most to his audience because in doing so he is sure to gain the listeners’ full attention and consideration of the immorality of slavery.
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