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This quote greatly boosted Douglass' credibility as a writer who can address the topic of slavery. It would seem to Douglass that almost everyone in the North assumed Slaves sung out of contentment. Yet, as a former slave, Douglass new that this was the exact opposite of the truth. Douglass, from his time as a slave, knew that slaves would sing most when they were unhappy. Douglass knowing this fact makes him more credible as a writer because only someone who experienced slavery firsthand would know why it is that slaves would sing.

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A common excuse to justify slavery in Douglass' time was found in the bible. This section of the bible was about a story in which God cursed Ham and all of his descendants to a life of slavery. The slave owners believed that their slaves were descendants of Ham and therefore enslaving them was justified. But, Douglass presents the argument that because so many slaves were now of mixed race, the Southern slave population would no longer be descendants of Ham; and due to this fact slavery in the South was no longer justified by the Bible. Douglass' argument was used by him to convince those who believed slavery was right due to the bible that it is not, even though he himself already knew this fact.

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Douglass uses this incident to appeal to the empathetic side of his readers. Douglass' readers do not know what it was like to experience what he saw and this quote, with its strong emotional wording, gives them a little idea of what the emotional pain he felt was like. This quote also shocks the readers and shows just how brutal the overseers were. The reader feels for Douglass' Aunt who, no matter how hard she tried, could not make the overseer stop his assault.

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In the following sentence Douglass corrects a common misconception of non-slaves  that slaves sing iout of happiness: ¨I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the
north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is
impossible to conceive of a greater mistake.¨ Douglass 8).

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Douglass address the class of mulattoes with a quote that reads "...it will do away the force of the argument, that God
cursed Ham, and therefore American slavery is right. If the lineal descendants of Ham are alone to be scripturally enslaved,
it is certain that slavery at the south must soon become unscriptural..." (Douglass 3).

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Douglass explains the harshness of the punishment slaves endured when he recalled "I have often been awakened at the dawn of
day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine,
whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood. No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose" (Douglass 3).

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Ethos is used by an author to boost his or her credibility so that their audience trusts them to be an authority.

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Logos is an author using solid, fact based, logic to make their audience believe their point.

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Pathos is how an author appeals to the emotions of their audience to evoke a certain feeling from them.