Question

What strategy is the writer using to persuade the audience?

Answer 1

Strong as we are, we need the energy that slumbers in the black man's arm to make us stronger. We want no longer any heavy-footed, melancholy service from the negro. We want the cheerful activity of the quickened manhood of these sable millions. Nor can we afford to endure the moral blight which the existence of a degraded and hated class must necessarily inflict upon any people among whom such a class may exist. Exclude the negroes as a class from political rights, — teach them that the high and manly privilege of suffrage is to be enjoyed by white citizens only, — that they may bear the burdens of the state, but that they are to have no part in its direction or its honors,— and you at once deprive them of one of the main incentives to manly character and patriotic devotion to the interests of the government; in a word, you stamp them as a degraded caste, — you teach them to despise themselves, and all others to despise them.
— Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage by Frederick Douglass

Answer 2

a. The writer is asserting that, in light of their recent emancipation, former slaves don’t need any further help from the government.
b. The writer argues that emancipated slaves are an untapped resource, and can be used to make an already formidable nation even stronger.
c. The writer is persuading the audience to feel sympathy for emancipated slaves.
d. The writer is wondering aloud why emancipated slaves are no longer treated with fairness and respect.

Answer 3

I think it's C but I wanted to double check

Answer 4

You're correct! Good Job!

Answer 5

Thanks!