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Read and study both the introductory blurbs and the essays below (Each of them is super short):
P. 41 John Woolman “Considerations on Keeping Negroes, Part Second”
P. 65 “Petition for Gradual Emancipation, 1777”
P. 84 “Protest Against Colonization Policy, 1817”
P. 90 Theodore Frelinghuysen “Speech Protesting the Indian Removal Bill, April 9, 1830”
Look at the articles you’ve read for this week from pages 41, 65, 84, and 90. In your head, consider each of the elements we’ve studied in connection with rhetoric. Do the writing portion after you consider this. Read these instructions all the way through.
Planned
Adapted to an Audience
Shaped by Human Motives
Responsive to a Situation
Persuasion Seeking (Argument, appeal, arrangement, artistic devices)
Concerned with Contingency
Then, answer the following three prompts in written form.
Adapted to an Audience/Shaped by human motives.
1. Discuss how one of the writings is adapted to its audience.
Persuasion
2. Is there a specific persuasive appeal to the values of the
audience that ALL of the assigned texts make? What is it? Be specific by
quoting and citing page numbers.
3. On page 66, the petitioners say they are astonished that the
proponents of slavery have never “considered that every principle from
which Americans have acted in the course of their unhappy difficulties
with Great Britain pleads stronger than a thousand arguments” that the
petitioners are now putting forth for emancipation. Where else, in other
texts that were assigned, is the argument made that the intended
audience is going against its own principles? Be specific by naming the
article and quoting the relevant passages.
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