The Power of Conviction

Illuminating the preconceived opinion of America on the day of independence celebration was authentically a risky move, alone for one man, any step of risk involved was charge saving the godliness of a democracy. Although thraldom was culturally recognised at this time, many abolitionists fought to sire about an end to this grievous act. On July 5th, 1852, Frederick Douglass presented himself to the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, bran-new York, embracing the opportunity to articulatio his opposition to wards ending slavery to the abolition-sympathetic audience. Reminding a farming of their morality and ethics not hardly required tact and intellect, tho most importantly, unwavering religious belief. That meant bank in his theologys plan, regardless if it meant potential failure. In his oration, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July, Frederick Douglass displays this crocked belief and diligently enhances his ethos as a man of trust with devout perspectiv e, pious crystalize and hope of a tribes redemption. With respect to Gods power and authority, Douglass securely establishes a religious indistinguishability that his audience could understand and appreciate.\nDouglas demonstrates his faith with devout perspective on Christianity through creating an analogy amidst Americas patently Christian acts and of past authoritarian acts. Douglasss viewpoint is an reward to him as a speaker. He can clearly hitch that Americans do not attend to follow the Christian principles that the nation was founded upon, and makes this clear with his speech. And let me censure you Douglass exclaims, that it is dangerous to copy the archetype of a nation whose crimes, sullen to heaven, thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable divulge! (120). Douglass shares this statement with the audience and enhances his ethos, or the apparent character of the speaker, by sharing Americas history of the revolutionary war and establish his credibility as a ma...