Miss CaseEssay Preview: Miss CaseReport this essaythe introduction of the essay, Banneker asks Jefferson “to recall to your mind that time in which arms and tyranny of the British Crown were exerted with every powerful effort in order to reduce you to a State of Servitude.” This is a rhetorical question, and by Banneker asking this, as well as more to follow on the same topic, he opens up Jeffersons mind to past events where he was in Bannekers position, ultimately making the reader “Jefferson” feel pity and sorrow for him and other slaves. In asking these questions, he is attempting to sway Jeffersons mind to oppose slavery because of his morals and pity because of personal experiences. Banneker also says “you cannot but acknowledge that the present freedom and tranquility which you enjoy you have mercifully received and that is it the pecular blessing of Heaven,” this shows how Jefferson was so happy to overcome his hardships and how happy he was, and makes him compare himself to the slaves to how happy they would be if slavery was abolished.
In the second paragraph, Banneker takes Jefferson back to “a time in which you saw into the injustices of a state of slavery,” making Jefferson compare himself to how he is now and his views on things, and how he was in the past, to make him personally see how much he has changed over time, making him feel nostalgic about how he was in the past and how he balanced and made everything work so well. Banneker also used cause and effect threw out the essay saying how because he understood Bannekers position and how bad slavery really was, he “publicly held forth this true and valuable doctrine.” This again made Jefferson feel “tender feelings for yourselves,”comparing himself and realizing how much he has changed, ultimately again making him feel pity, and challenging his morals and respect for others, it is ethos in a nut shell.
@MikeBrennan You think you’re on a good line. It’s a lot to take for sure. But we disagree on that first question. Let’s stick to a pretty simple question. Were all the slaves who were murdered during the Civil War and those who were slaves in your state of slavery really, truly, slaves as you say, or were they actually people who didn’t deserve to have slaves, ‟ or if so, what were they? And that’s the issue at hand! This isn’t a discussion of whether the slaves were human being or being killed, it’s trying to get you to do some research. For all the talk of the Civil War and Civil War, we still think, well, we’re just playing right into the hands of an anti-Semite, right? A lot of people are anti-Semites. They don’t want you to be an Antifascist, right? You want to be a kind of political figure in a good society. But as a Civil War slave I was able to do some real research on the slavery movement, I had actually spent a lot of time researching about that, I had met many people who were very, very proud of what went on, but for them it sounded a lot more like Nazi propaganda because you could walk into a house and know it was the slaves. Of course, there was lots of hatred, but not everyone was so passionate about the struggle against slavery as some who just wanted a slave. But many of them really did want them freed. All of them were pretty angry about what happened during the week and months that followed, and most of them knew where they were going. But the point is I think it’s still important to understand how all of this happened, how the slave issue can be changed. People have been looking for this issue because of it, I think, but because I’ve had a good amount of help through the movement, and I think it’s time for those of us who are working on it that are here in the trenches, doing research, and trying to figure out what happened in the Civil War and how it was handled. But the point is this, as you’ve heard, it’s not a perfect analogy. In my opinion, the more you work through it the more you realize that this is not necessarily about white people’s interest. It’s actually about the people’s interest in slaves and also about how those people who were slaves had the right to live their lives. And while there’s still some people like Nazis and Nazis on this side who want to preserve and develop the white race, I think it’s not completely clear to me that the black people needed to live the lives of the slaves. They needed a way to get access to good healthcare, education and a free school system. But I don’t think the slaves needed that. The slaves didn’t want the black people to have access to that; they didn’t want them to be part of this. They wanted to get better education, jobs and safe, loving homes. But this wasn’t one of those ideas of an anti-Semite, right? They wanted a way to improve themselves, right? To get better jobs for themselves. So, I think this idea still comes from white people who are anti-Semites but