We were all ranked together at the valuation. men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. there were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination. silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection. douglass’s use of imagery in this excerpt appeals to the sense of sight. smell. sound. touch.

A) sight

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paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."