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To see ones own family in agony is torture, to not be able to do anything about it inflicts pain on your mind, especially at a young age. I could understand if this experience caused a mental scar in Douglass' mind.

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I could never imagine making one weeks worth of food last between myself and a few other people for one month. I love food.

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Only the slaves would see this side of their master, the true evil within is only seen in private behind closed doors.

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Douglass explains his opinion of his master; "Mr. Severe was rightly named: he was a cruel man. I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time; and this, too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother's release" (p. 11)"

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Douglass describes his aunt's lashing; "red blood (amid heart-rendering shrieks from her and horrid oaths from him) came dripping to the floor"  (p. 4)

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Douglass states how "As their monthly allowance of food, eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal" would be all they could get.(p. 6)

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Appeals to logic, persuades an audience with reasoning

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To appeal to one's emotions, to strike one in the heart.

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To appeal to an audience using  specific, related credibility.