Lemuel Brooke And Abigail Adams Rhetorical Analysis

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Both Lemuel Haynes and Abigail Adams represented the voices of those who were not included in the laws of the Constitution. Though their writings were on different aspect of cultural roles, the common point that is shared by the two arguments was equality in life. In Lemuel’s text, the idea of slave-keeping was something that hurts those individuals to a life where they are kept for hard labor and not have the freedom to enjoy the privileges that God gave to each person (Haynes, pg 2). The idea of Abigail’s letter was to persuade President John Adams to change the rule of equality to a more meaningful definition where everyone has the same opportunities and be able to live a life where fears are limited. For example, when she visit a the illness,

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