This comparison entails the speech by Henry Highland Garnet delivered In Buffalo, New York, August of 1843 and Sojourner Truth’s speech that she delivered at the Women’s Convention of 1851. In the speeches mentioned above, there exist differences concerning how they were written, addressed, intentions and their target audiences. In the following paper, we will look at an in-depth comparison while at the same time contrasting the entire speeches. It will encompass more on the literary devices used in the two statements. Uses of rhetorical strategies to achieve a fruitful and powerful delivery of their message and the theme and features they share as antislavery texts despite the genders of the speakers.
Henry Highland Garnet was an African-American that took the approach of Black Nationalism. Garnet maintained that African Americans must free themselves. In his oration to the Slaves of the United States of America, he explicitly said he wanted their motto to be resistance. Garnet's speech encouraged the antislavery movement. Garnet appropriates the rhetoric of agitation, promoting Black Nationalism, and radically highlighting the manhood of African American males, Garnet was truly an independent thinker and a capable rhetorician. …show more content…
Repetition plays a significant role in this speech. She appeals to the audience of women with her claim that refers to motherhood, “seeing her children taken from her and sold to work for their entire lives.” Her rallying cry is placed after each of these claims - Ain’t I a woman? Repetition acts as a magnifier in this function to highlight each prior point and metaphorically twist the dagger deeper in our hearts. This appeal to pathos does not make the audience pity Truth because her settled ethos proves her to be a capable and powerful human being able to withstand all her
Henry Highland Garnet was an African-American that took the approach of Black Nationalism. Garnet maintained that African Americans must free themselves. In his oration to the Slaves of the United States of America, he explicitly said he wanted their motto to be resistance. Garnet's speech encouraged the antislavery movement. Garnet appropriates the rhetoric of agitation, promoting Black Nationalism, and radically highlighting the manhood of African American males, Garnet was truly an independent thinker and a capable rhetorician. …show more content…
Repetition plays a significant role in this speech. She appeals to the audience of women with her claim that refers to motherhood, “seeing her children taken from her and sold to work for their entire lives.” Her rallying cry is placed after each of these claims - Ain’t I a woman? Repetition acts as a magnifier in this function to highlight each prior point and metaphorically twist the dagger deeper in our hearts. This appeal to pathos does not make the audience pity Truth because her settled ethos proves her to be a capable and powerful human being able to withstand all her