In the example from the speech included in paragraph 8, how are the phrases similar? What idea do they help support?
8- There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punlshment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the llke punishment. What is this but the acknowledgment that the slave is a moral, Intellectual, and responsible belng? The manhood of the slave Is conceded. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write. When you can polnt to any such laws In reference to the beasts of the fleld, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave. When the dogs In your streets, when the fowls of the alr, when the cattle on your hills, when the fish of the sea, and the reptiles that crawl, shall be unable to distingulsh the slave from a brute, then will I argue with you that the slave is a man!
its about Frederick Douglass
