Notes for 9/8

To do a rhetorical analysis apply the acronym SMELL
Sender-Receiver
   Frederick Douglass--freeman and escaped slave
   audience--white Northerners

Message: 
1.  Blacks are men and women
2.  US is land of free
3.  Slavery is not divinely justified

Effect
   Thunderclap
    Earthquake

Logic
   Slavery=barbarism
   litany of crimes against black people
  not Divine

Language
   19th c, highly educated
    demonstrates knowledge of US law and history.