Continuing Work with John Tyler Morgan “The Race Question in the United States”
- The Rhetorical Appeal here is…Emotion: FEAR, and lots of it.
- Warrant: Blacks are inferior to whites.
- Claim: It is a waste to give Black Americans rights; civil or other wise.
- Reasons: No white American will ever see them as anything other than a slave.
- Evidence: PvF p. 67 –> Common Law of the race since the beginning of the race; naturally inferior
- Counterargument: None??
- Rebuttal:
- Obtaining information from “natural scientists” and “social scientists” during this time period; drawing from what they create and labeling it as “knowledge.”
- Morgan’s essay is supposed to be an argumentative essay meant to persuade the public to his stance.
Further Class Notes Involving Du Bois
- Ethos- trustworthy person
- Pathos- emotion
- Logos- reason
- Most readers during this time period would be white, they were the literate ones in the day; appeal to non-racist to see black Americans as people.
- Evidence backs the person’s recounting and life in America.
- Du Bois is using his experience to justify his evidence instead of the racist information published by the scientists infested with the idea of biological determination.
- Black life is undocumented at this time period.
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