This text is an appeal from the Free the Slaves website, www.freetheslaves.com, where it provides information on the nature and extent of modern slavery, and convinces readers to take action to bring slavery to an end. The purpose of the text is to get readers to take action towards ending slavery. Through the use of diction, statistical data, appeal to ethos and a direct call to action, the reader is persuaded to take a stand against modern slavery. The author uses specific diction, especially emotive language, to persuade the reader to take action. Using words such as “trapped”, “forced” or “cannot walk away” suggests a lack of freedom and humanitarian rights for these enslaved people, while also hinting at cruelty. It evokes pathos, where …show more content…
This also appeals to pathos, creating guilt as the text hints at the oblivious and careless nature of the reader, not realizing the slavery and suffering behind the products they consume, leading them to make a change. By using specific diction, the author creates an urge in the reader to create a change. The use of statistical data is used by the text to create credibility in the authors intentions of “saving the slaves”. In “Researchers estimate that 40 million are enslaved worldwide, generating $150 billion each year in illicit profits for traffickers,” statistical data such as “40 million” and “$150 billion” are used to express the sheer extent of this hidden problem. By exposing the numbers behind the situation, the reader is led to believe the underlying problem behind modern slavery, and raises awareness that this is not something from the past, but a modern day problem. In paragraph 1, different natures of slavery are exposed to the reader, as well as their approximate percentages of the enslaved in different types of