Douglass uses the rhetorical device known as logos.
<h3>What is logos?</h3>
- It's a persuasive resource.
- It is a speech that exalts and stimulates logical thinking.
Douglass shows in the second paragraph that he, of course, is not the appropriate person to speak at the commemoration of the country's independence.
That's because the country's independence represented freedom, the conquest of rights, and happiness and he represented the slaves, a people without freedom, without rights, and who were prevented from being happy. Thus, he was not the appropriate person to make the speech, as he had nothing to celebrate, as he was a black man doomed to lack independence due to white society.
This question is about the speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" and you can learn more about this speech at the link:
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