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Frederick Douglass Use Of Ethos Pathos Logos

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On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to celebrate Independence Day in Rochester, New York and was to give a speech. His intended audience was the general public in which he believed needed to hear his opinion. Frederick Douglass was a former slave who had escaped his torment in his early twenties. In his speech, Douglass argues to the American people that they have a pretentious attitude toward slaves' freedom. Douglass states his thesis when he says "America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false in the future." To support his thesis, Douglass uses appeal to logos, ethos, and pathos. He first introduces logos appeals when he explains how statistically a white man gets away with the same
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