FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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FREDERICK DOUGLASSSWHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE
4TH OF JULY

• DESIREE MILTON
• COMM. 165
• POWERPOINT PROJECT

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• CELEBRATED SPEAKER
• FORMER SLAVE WHO ESCAPED AND FLED TO ENGLAND
• ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN
• ACTIVE FIGURE DURNING TE WOMENS RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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THESIS OF HIS SPEECH

• THERE IS NO REASON TO CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY
  IT WOULD BE HYPOCRITICAL OF HIM BECAUSE THE
  DOCUMENT IS NOT REPRESENTING ALL THEY ARE
  CELEBRATING

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THE ORGAINZATION OF THE SPEECH

• PAST- REVOLUTION FROM ENGLAND
• PRESENT- SLAVERY IS STILL BEING PRACTICED
• FUTURE- SLAVERY WILL END BUT IF NOT COULD CRUMBLE
  AMERICA

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LANGUAGE

• HE TALKS ABOUT WHAT SLAVERY WAS TO HIM
• HE TALKS ABOUT THE SLAVE TRADE
• HE USES METAPHORS AND REFERS TO SLAVERY AS A
  SNAKE ON AMERICAS BOOSOM.

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RHETORICAL QUESTIONS

• WOULD YOU HAVE ME ARGUE THAT MAN IS ENTITLED TO
  LIBERTY? (48)
• MUST I DECLARE THE WRONGFULNESS OF SLAVERY?
  (48)
• IS THAT A QUESTION FOR REPUBLICANS? (48)

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WHY THESE LANGUAGE CHOICES?

• PERIODIC SENTENCES
• HE TRIES TO OVERLOAD HIS AUDIENCE (49)
• HE PLAYS INTO THEIR IDEAS OF WHO AFRICAN
  AMERICANS ARE (EX UNEDUCATED, DEPENDENT ON
  WHITES)

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WHY THESE LANGUAGE CHOICES?

• A FORTIORI ARGUMENT- HE ARGUES IN HIS SPEECH THAT
  EVEN BRUT BEASTS RECOGNIZE THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS
  ARE HUMAN BEINGS (48)

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WHY THESE LANGUAGE CHOICES?

• REVERSAL- HE ARGUES THAT THE UNITED STATES IS A
  COUNTRY FULL OF SAVAGES (53)
• HE MAKES THEM SEE THAT THEY ARE DOING TO THE
  BLACKS AS THE ENGLISH DID TO THEM.

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RHEOTRICAL FUNCTION

• COGNITIVE DISSONANCE WAS CREATED BY DOUGLASS
  BECAUSE OF INCONSISTENCIES HE CREATS IN HIS
  SPEECH.
• AUDIENCE DEALS WITH DISSONCANCE BY DISCREDITING
  THE SOURCE, FIND NEW INFO, OR CHANGES BELIEF,
  ATTITUDE OR BEHAVIOR.

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RHETORICAL ENACTMANT

• DOUGLASS POWERFUL SPEAKER.
• HE SPEECH WAS WELL THOUGHT OUT.
• IN HIS SPEECH HE REFUTED ALL ARGUMENTS HIS
  AUDIENCE HAD AGAINST HIM THEY WERE FORCED TO
  LISTEN.