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Essay / Narrative Essay by Frederick Douglass - 1040
2, p. 14). He uses his previous experience with former master Colonel Lloyd to emotionally appeal, using pathos, to the reader that slavery is not something that should be supported at all because it would horrify the very fabric of their existence, which, both, if taken into account. perspective, would contradict any statement in favor of slavery. Douglass shows that the Southern argument for slavery is incredibly invalid by expertly showing that slavery's supporters did not live in the fragile bodies of slaves who worked tirelessly and, sometimes, until 'to their unfortunate deaths, claiming that their positions of support would completely turn around. if they had lived a single day in the hell he had experienced, if the person had a soul. Declaring that the idea of slavery was a "system of fraud and inhumanity of slavery" (Ch. 10, p. 77) which was dressed in "robes already crimson with the blood of millions, and who still greedily feasts on our own flesh" (Ch. 10, p. 85), Douglass described the simple concept of slavery as a dreadful and malignant demon that seeks to destroy