Does Douglas use fallacious reasoning or logical fallacies in "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July"? Use evidence from the text to support your answers.

Douglas uses  fallacious reasoning or logical fallacies in "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July".

Explanation:

A rhetorician would often use logic and a well formed argument to tell the reader that their point is right or they can present an impassioned argument that may imply a sort of logical fallacy here but will get the point across with more emotion and more weight.

It is the second tactic that Douglass uses in "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July".

It was more important for him to get his point across. So when he compares the blacks to the people of Moses in the Egypt he is not making  a logical but an emotional comparison tween the plight of the two.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.