By showing people the hardships slaves were willing to endure to become free and the injustice done to all slaves when their families are ripped apart. They use their emotions predominantly to speak against slavery to address slavery as a moral issue rather than an economical issue which it also was. Stowe and Jacobs seem to be appealing strongly to pathos mostly in their writings. This almost implies that they think slavery is kept out of ignorance rather than true hatred of their race. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin they say he is a noble man he just doesn’t understand. It is interesting how they talk of their state senator and how he argues for slaves to be kept and for fugitive slaves to be apprehended when in reality they don’t know anything of a slave’s life. Yet they still tried to escape from their lives as slaves going through hardships and risking their lives to get away from their owners. They had “good families” who didn’t whip them or brand them with irons. The runaway slaves in these pieces haven’t been abused or suffered the injustices that we always hear about when we talk of slavery. I think the central argument of both pieces is not about the wrongs done to slaves but that slaves should be freed simply because they are people and the institution of slavery is unjust.
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