Fredrick boiiiiiii!

In his speech, Frederick Douglass is saying that the Fourth of July was not independence for slaves. All the talk of liberty, independence, and prosperity didn't apply to slaves because they weren't free. Douglass felt mocked because blacks weren't considered men therefore the Declaration of Independence wasn't referring to blacks. Then Douglass begins to name off allt hese things that blacks can do that are equal to whites. With all of the qualifications that says blacks aren't men, Douglass turns the tabe on that reasoning and says he doesn't really have to prove that blacks are actual men too because they ahve alreayd done it. this is when he uses the appeal to logos by turning the tables on to them. i felt this was a very powerful pieve within the whole speech. if I was one of the people attacking Douglass and the black race saying that they aren't qualified, after hearing that I would feel really stupid. He uses the appeal to logos in order to turn the tables against them and by the tone he is using along with first hand experience as a slave and knowing what it's like not to have your freedom and to be considered somthing less than a man. In a sense he also appeals to ethos from his first hand experience; what he's saying is credible because he has lived it.