Rhetorical Analysis Of William Pitt's Speech On Slave Trade

William Pitt talks in a way that persuades people to believe him and actually feel what he is saying. In his speech about slave trade and why it should be abolished, he uses multiple strategies in order to get his point across. In the beginning of his speech he uses a series of rhetorical questions “If then we feel… If we view… If we shudder” (Safire 657.) he uses these questions in order to amend the motion on abolishing slave trade. William Pitt the younger believed that slave trade should be abolished because it is not advantageous to Great Britain it actually is most destructive and ruins the economy by “supplying our plantations with negroes” and it goes against the first principle of justice.
William Pitt the younger used repetition in his speech mentioning his honorable friend and does this to show that someone else is trying to end slave trade to, but they are trying to go at it a different

Williams Pitt use of strategic language and the way he uses it in certain things he says gets the point across and actually is showing people why the slave trade is unnecessary and morally wrong because we are taking people from their country and destroying their families. He talked in a way that persuades people and at the end of his speech says “I shall vote, sir, against the adjournment; and I shall also oppose to the utmost every proposition which in any way may tend either to prevent or even to postpone for an hour the total abolition of the slave trade: a measure which, on all the various grounds which I have stated, we are bound, by the most pressing and indispensable duty, to adopt.” (671) And this shows that he will do anything possible to stop slave trade and lets the people know that he has stated multiple reasons that they should be with him in stopping the trade of