Rhetoric In Bacon's Rebellion, By Alexander

Alexander uses a variety of specific primary sources in chapter one. Verbal rhetoric was used to try to bring out emotions through pathos and by starting off with a violent topic to a less violent one. In addition, there were many primary sources in the sense historical events that Alexander uses to address the start at the root of the problem that led to mass incarceration. She uses a historical narrative to try to connect past events to the present day. Alexander uses the historical timeline of different historical events to try to prove a cycle that is occurring. Her goal is to show how that cycle keeps giving rise to different forms of the same problem. But more specifically, to show how the same problem has rose in the form of mass incarceration this time.

Although, in history classes or throughout grade school, this historical event instead really talked about. Even though she doesn’t spend much time talking about the historical even known as Bacon’s Rebellion, she does take the time to show its significance in our history. Bacon’s Rebellion can be thought of as the first period of confusion in history where multicultural alliance was occurring. The rebellion was named after Nathan Bacon, he managed to unite several groups to go against the white planter elites. There was a multicultural alliance that was built on common interests that was shared by the different cultural groups, chiefly economics. Bacon’s Rebellion was when different groups like African American slaves, poor people and servants, the people from the lower level of the social hierarchy came together to try to over throw the white plantation