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Since Frederick Douglass was there during slavery, he has a lot of experiences to back his claim. It's not like he is someone who is researching slavery. He can provide factual events for what happened to him and the other slaves at the time.

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Frederick Douglass, being a slave, can offer a lot of credibility in this book because he was there to see it. Douglass was there for a lot of the awful events that the slaves had to endure, so he can provide some insight as to what it was like.

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I have found a lot of experiences in Frederick's writing that can be linked to pathos. The way he describes how the slaves were treated creates a strong emotional connection between the reader and the writer. He uses these particular events to demonstrate the point that slavery needs to be abolished.

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"He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cow skin" (Douglass 3)

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Another strong example of Frederick Douglass using pathos is when he describes how one of his overseers would take pleasure from whipping slaves, stating "The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest" (Douglass 3).

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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
-Douglass

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"The master is frequently compelled to sell this class of his slaves, out of deference to the feelings of his white wife...... it is often the dictate of humanity for him to do so" (Douglass 2)

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men
-Douglass

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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
-Douglass

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Douglass explains how the owners would have affairs with the slave women which had produced a number of mulatto children. He points out that those children are frequently sold to new owners to spare the hardship of the father having to watch his own being whipped or beat.

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An appeal used by the author based off of logic and evidence to support their statements

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Frederick Douglass talks about how very little slaves knew of their age, by writing "the larger part of the slaves know as little of their age as a horse knows of theirs.......and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant" (1).

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An appeal to the authority or credibility of the presenter or author.

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The author remarks how he never got a chance to really know about his mother when he remarks: "I do not recollect  of ever seeing my mother by the light of day. She would lie down with me and get me to sleep, but long before I waked she was gone" (Douglass 2).

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A quality in a narrator's writing that evokes a strong emotional appeal to the reader.