Cain

English

8 November, 04:07

By including this event in his narrative, published in 1845, Douglass is writing to what possible audience?

They both advised me to run away to the north; that I should find friends there, and that I should be free. I pretended not to be interested in what they said, and treated them as if I did not understand them; for I feared they might be treacherous. White men have been known to encourage slaves to escape, and then, to get the reward, catch them and return them to their masters ... I nevertheless remembered their advice, and from that time I resolved to run away.

a. all audiences, stating facts as he remembers them

b. adults interested in historical context of African-Americans

c. white people in an appeal of pathos to their sense of injustice

d. fellow slaves to encourage them