In one whole paragraph he made an allusion to the Bible yet again, which used a form of pathos. He said, “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion...” (Douglass 286). This gave an emotional appeal to the listener because it captured a familiar story from the Bible that would catch the listener's emotions. An example of a time when he used ethos was when he captured the audience by exclaiming, “To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass-fronted...:” (289). By venting this, he is saying that the white people have different definitions of Independence than those of his own race. This is an example of ethos because it lets the audience know that treating slaves badly is
In one whole paragraph he made an allusion to the Bible yet again, which used a form of pathos. He said, “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion...” (Douglass 286). This gave an emotional appeal to the listener because it captured a familiar story from the Bible that would catch the listener's emotions. An example of a time when he used ethos was when he captured the audience by exclaiming, “To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass-fronted...:” (289). By venting this, he is saying that the white people have different definitions of Independence than those of his own race. This is an example of ethos because it lets the audience know that treating slaves badly is