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step 1

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Banneker, son of former slaves, highly accomplished, anti-slavery

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step 2

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a letter to Jefferson in 1791, shortly after Revolutionary War and Declaration of Independence

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step 3

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Thomas Jefferson, principal writer of the Declaration of Independence, Secretary of State

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step 4

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persuade Jefferson that according to the Declaration he helped write, slavery is wrong

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step 5

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eloquent, emotional diction, direct address, allusions

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step 6

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pleading, didactic

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warning

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  • read the following excerpt from the letter
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style

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  • you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act which you detest in others (irony)
  • to recall to your mind that time in which the arms and tyranny of the British Crown (allusion)
  • servitude, look back…preservation; you cannot (sentence complexity)
  • British crown… in order to reduce you to a state of servitude (analogy between tyranny and slavery)
  • worthy to be recorded and remembered in all succeeding ages. “we hold these truths… self-evident” (allusion)
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speaker

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  • your tender feelings for yourselves had engaged you thus to declare, (remind the reader of his feelings)
  • benevolence of the Father of mankind (word choice that indicates he’s Christian)
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task

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  • write an essay that analyzes how Banneker uses rhetorical strategies to argue against slavery
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purpose

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  • wean yourselves from those narrow prejudices which you have imbibed with respect to them
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occasion

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  • sir, suffer me to recall to your mind that time in which the arms and tyranny of the British Crown
  • in 1791 he wrote to Thomas Jefferson

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