https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4 Ethos, Pathos, & Logos en-us 2018-01-17 21:19:34 UTC 2026-02-26 19:56:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png 3065092 https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/222250591 2018-01-17 21:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/222250591 3065092 https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/222250646 2018-01-17 21:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/222250646 3065092 https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/222250667 2018-01-17 21:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/222250667 3065092 https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/222926908 Whilst discussing the Great House Farm, Colonel Lloyd's home plantation, Douglass adds that the slaves chosen to work at that particular location were "peculiarly enthusiastic" (7). They would sing, their voices revealing "the highest joy and the deepest sadness" both at once (7). Upon listening to these soulful melodies, Douglass states that "every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. To those songs [he could] trace [his] first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery" (8).]]> 2018-01-19 19:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/222926908 3065092 https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/222937909 Upon his recount of one of the vicious whippings he had witnessed at Colonel Lloyd's plantation, and at times a participant of, he recalls his master having no mercy on his victim. In this particular case, it was his aunt. Despite her blood-curdling screams and cries, his whipping would prevail with seemingly no end. Douglass recalls that "No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose" (3). Where blood flowed, he whipped harder with ruthless force. And with this Douglass had felt, with the first time having seen such an awful scene before him, that he had passed through "the entrance to the hell of slavery" (3).]]> 2018-01-19 20:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/222937909 3065092 https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/223569200 Douglass discusses how slaves would lie about their masters when asked about them, only naming positive things to avoid punishment. Their answers would generally be in their master's favour, that they were content and been treated well, for "a still tongue makes a wise head" (11). Douglass states that, when he was a slave, he had frequently been asked these sorts of questions and recalls he does not remember ever having said a negative answer nor "consider [himself] as uttering what was absolutely false" (11). He would, more or less, always tell some truth, with some deception of course, for Douglass "always measured the kindness set up among slaveholders around [them] (11).]]> 2018-01-22 21:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/223569200 3065092 https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/223574864 In his telling of this aspect of the relationship between slave and master, he explicitly states that he was a slave himself. This is only one of the few times he has done so to this point. Thereby he reaffirms his background which in turn supports his previous and future statements.  ]]> 2018-01-22 21:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/223574864 3065092 https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/223580530 With this piece, Douglass utilizes its power to bring about extreme emotions and place the reader in his place to feel the horror he had felt witnessing such an atrocity. Douglass wants the reader to understand just how cruel masters can, how appalling slavery really is.]]> 2018-01-22 22:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/223580530 3065092 https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/223586497 Douglass uses these experiences to disprove the popular belief that slaves are happy and sing because of so. His memories of listening to the other slaves sorrowful songs, and of singing himself, serves to dismantle what many people believed and thus prove that slavery is harmful and brings great pain to those enchained. ]]> 2018-01-22 22:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/3065092/l82r8woxvqx4/wish/223586497