Analyze chattel slavery as the integrated economic + social + legal system of the US South 1850 — cotton kingdom, 3.95M enslaved per 1860 Census, Atlantic + global cotton commodity chain — refusing 'slavery was unprofitable and dying' framing
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~5 min
hist.g8.f.ex_03
Short Answer
Prompt
Identify 2 rhetorical moves Douglass makes in 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?' 1852.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
rubric
criteria
- Names apostrophe (addressing the enslaved)
- Names REFUSAL/inversion of holiday meaning
- OR names anaphora OR antithesis OR climactic-tricolon
Hints
- Look at how Douglass addresses 'the American slave' as imagined listener.
- Note how he reverses the holiday's meaning.
Misconceptions to watch
- Treating Douglass's speech as celebratory rather than refusing
- Missing rhetorical labels
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