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Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech By Florence Kelley

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In the early nineteenth century, child labor laws were a massive topic up for debate. Florence Kelley, both a United States social worker and reformer who fought for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women, expressed her opinion about child labor. Kelley introduced this concern through a speech she presented in 1905 before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In this speech, she discussed young children working inhumane hours each night with minimal sleep while adults allowed it to transpire. Kelley wanted to put an end to this cruelty. For this to happen, Kelley persuaded her audience to focus on the brutality of child labor and to help eradicate this current behavior.
Kelley’s speech had a
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