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Douglass wanted the reader to feel for the slaves when he described the amount of food they were given for a whole month. Hopefully the reader realized that 8 pounds is not a lot of food at all, that is almost the same as 6 hamburgers, but for a whole month.

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When using numbers and statistics, that is a perfect example of Logos. It shows the reader, the logic in your writing. Douglass does a perfect example of that in the quote above.

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This quote is an example of Ethos because Douglass was in this situation. He was one of the slaves. Fredrick had to deal with barely being able to see his mom until she died. Everything he writes about, he experienced, which makes him more credible.

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To show the suffering that the slaves went through, Douglass added that, "their monthly allowance of food, eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal" (6).

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Douglass gave the reader an example of the slaves' allowance of clothes, "Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, made of coarse negro cloth, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes" (6).

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The author has a very distant relationship with his mother. He explains that relationship when he says, "Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger" (Douglass 2).

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An appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason.

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An appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.

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An appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader.