Douglas

In his speech, he successfully appeals to logos, ethos and pathos. He was a slave himself; therefore the audience is appealed to pathos. The subject evokes their emotions already, which is the ethos. Then, he does a good job of going step by step with the audience the reason why he doesn’t need to argue that slaves are “people”. One of his arguments was that slave owners “punish” slaves, which means that they force slaves to “think”, and reason. Only the humans can think and reason, which means that slaves are humans.