Question

Read the excerpt from "What the Black Man Wants." [W]hen any individual or combination of individuals undertakes to decide for any man when he shall work, where he shall work, at what he shall work, and for what he shall work, he or they practically reduce him to slavery. [Applause.] He is a slave. That I understand Gen. Banks to do—to determine for the so-called freedman, when, and where, and at what, and for how much he shall work, when he shall be punished, and by whom punished. It is absolute slavery. It defeats the beneficent intention of the Government, if it has beneficent intentions, in regards to the freedom of our people. How does Douglass appeal to the audience’s sense of logic in the excerpt?

Answer 1

by explaining the reasoning behind his argument

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Answer 2

Douglass draws on the public's sense of logic by making an analogy about slavery and the lack of freedom people have when someone decides their life, their work, and their choices. In this way he shows that many people live a different kind of slavery from what we have studied in history books and that slavery is all that deprives the freedom of choice of the human being.