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excerpt from what the black man wants by frederick douglass delivered 1865 before the annual meeting of the massachusetts anti - slavery society, boston, ma i do not know, from what has been said, that there is any difference of opinion as to the duty of abolitionists, at the present moment. how can we get up any difference at this point, or any point, where we are so united, so agreed? i went especially, however, with that word of mr. phillips, which is the criticism of gen. banks and gen. banks policy. i hold that that policy is our chief danger at the present moment; that it practically enslaves the negro, and makes the proclamation the emancipation proclamation of 1863 a mockery and delusion. what is freedom? it is the right to choose ones own employment. certainly it means that, if it means anything, and when any individual or combination of individuals undertakes to decide for any man when he shall work, where he shall work, at what he shall work, and for what he shall work, he or they practically reduce him to slavery. applause. he is a slave. that i understand gen. banks to do - to determine for the so - called freedman, when, and where, and at what, and for how much he shall work, when he shall be punished, and by whom punished. it is absolute slavery. it defeats the beneficent intention of the government, if it has beneficent intentions, in regard to the freedom of our people. how does douglass use tone to effectively convey his message in what the black man wants? douglass uses a passionate tone to strengthen the logical arguments he makes about universal suffrage. douglass uses a sorrowful tone to elicit sympathy and guilt in hopes of achieving universal suffrage. douglass uses a threatening tone to issue the inflexible demands he has prepared about universal suffrage. douglass uses an angry tone to convey the idea that the black man is bitter about the absence of universal suffrage.

Explanation:

En el discurso, Douglass muestra pasión al defender el derecho al sufragio universal. Su tono apoya sus argumentos lógicos sobre la importancia de este derecho para la comunidad afro - americana. No utiliza un tono amenazante, triste o simplemente enojado, sino que enfatiza con pasión su postura.

Answer:

Douglass uses a passionate tone to strengthen the logical arguments he makes about universal suffrage.