Alfred M Green Speech Rhetorical Devices

Alfred M. Green’s speech to the African American group delivered in April 1861 persuades his fellow African Americans to join the North Union forces. Even though African Americans were not allowed to fight for their country during the year of 1861, Alfred M. Green uses many powerful strategies in order to get them prepared to fight in this war when the time came. Green uses an abundance rhetorical strategies to argue his message and speak back to counter arguments that his actions he's encouraging may lead to. In the first three paragraphs in which Green is speaking, he maintains a positive tone. Green addresses the negative counter arguments that the North Union African American men may face when they begin war. He uses logos to acknowledge