Jefferson was the framer of the Declaration of Independence and secretary of state to President George Washington, thus making him a candidate who has some power to end slavery (or at least influence those with a higher position) once and for all (intro, lines 2-3). Because of Jefferson’s status, Banneker uses a variety of strategies to persuade Jefferson that slavery needs to be abolished through his use of pathos, ethos, and allusion.
The use of pathos can be seen in the first paragraph when…
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