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English, 09.05.2021 05:20, TerronRice

PLEASE HELP! Read this passage from Part 2 of Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? speech.
I was born amid such sights and scenes. To me, the American slave trade is a terrible reality. When a child, my soul was often pierced with a sense of its horrors. I lived on Philpot Street, Fell’s Point, Baltimore, and have watched from the wharves, the slave ships in the Basin, anchored from the shore, with their cargoes of human flesh, waiting for favorable winds to waft them down the Chesapeake. There was, at that time, a grand slave mart kept at the head of Pratt Street, by Austin Woldfolk. His agents were sent into every town and county in Maryland, announcing their arrival, through the papers, and on flaming “hand-bills,” headed CASH FOR NEGROES. These men were generally well dressed men, and very captivating in their manners. Ever ready to drink, to treat, and to gamble. The fate of many a slave has depended upon the turn of a single card; and many a child has been snatched from the arms of its mother by bargains arranged in a state of brutal drunkenness.

Write a rhetorical analysis of this passage.

Be sure to address these questions in your analysis:

What rhetorical device is used? (Identify at least one.)
What is the effect of the rhetorical technique?
How well does the rhetorical technique communicate Douglass’s message and purpose to his audience?

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