1. Benjamin Banneker's Letter on Slavery
... wrote about the blessing of independence, which "you have mercifully recieved and that is the peculiar blessing of Heaven." He also quotes a verse from the book of Job saying, "[P]ut your souls in their souls stead." Banneker inserts these two quotes along with a direct recitation of the founding principle upon which the United States was founded to align his audience in the ... long, permuted sentence. In three paragraphs, Banneker writes five sentences. His usage of syntactical permutation goes very far to explain the complexity of slavery and how long it has gone on. Banneker also us...
- Word Count: 663
- Approx Pages: 3
- Grade Level: Undergraduate