Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Rhetoric

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Ethos, because she is using her own experience to build credibility.

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“As they walked along she told them stories of her own first flight. . . .”

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“painting vivid word pictures of what it would be like to be free”

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to communicate with enslaved people who are going to leave with her

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“She tried to explain to them why none of them could go back to the plantation. If a runaway returned, he would turn traitor, the master and the overseer would force him to turn traitor.”

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Ethos, because she is using her own knowledge as a tool.

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ethos

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Pathos, because she is appealing to her audience’s needs.

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“She had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going.”

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The owner is scared that he and the group will be caught breaking the law.

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