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In the speech given by Wendell Phillips who was a prominent white American abolitionist in 1861 near the beginning of the Civil War, when Northerners were debating whether to allow African Americans to serve in the military, Phillips praises and celebrates the achievements of the Haitian general Toussaint Louverture. He does this in order to make his audience understand that since he was former slave who led the struggle to liberate other enslaved Haitians in order prove that even people from African American descent should allowed serve in the military since Louverture’s achievements were similar or exceeded those of White men like Washington and Napoleon. Philips also, through the use of metaphors and historical comparisons to famous people, shows that Louverture’s achievements were similar and that he should be celebrated as a result and the use of visualization to help his audience understand the scale of his achievements. These strategies overall help Phillips move his audience and praise his subject, General Toussaint Louverture.

In the beginning of the speech, Phillips compares Toussaint to notable historical figures like Napoleon and Washington. This can be seen in the first paragraph of his speech which states “If I stood here tonight to tell the story of Napoleon, I should take it from the lips of Frenchmen, who find language rich enough to paint the great captain of the nineteenth century. Were I here to tell you the story of Washington, I should take it from your hearts, - you, who think no marble white enough on which to carve the name of the Father of his country. I am about to tell you the story of a negro who has hardly written one line. I am to glean it … from the lips of his enemies ”. These comparisons right off the bat from the beginning of the speech show that Phillips is trying to excite the audience by bringing up these notable historical figures to and for the audience to remember some the achievements and details about the historical figures and then comparing him to these figures later on to Toussaint in order to make the audience understand that Toussaint was equal to or greater than these notable historical figures. Another example of Phillips comparing Toussant to notable figures is in the third paragraph of his speech which states that “I would call him Cromwell, but Cromwell was only a soldier, and the state he founded went down with him into his grave. I would call him Washington, but the great Virginian held slaves”. In the third paragraph Phillips builds on what he said in the first paragraph and compares him to notable figures such as Washington and Cromwell to Toussaint in order to make the audience understand that Toussaint was equal to or greater than these notable historical figures. 

Continuing on, Phillips uses metaphors and visualization to praise and move his audience in the second paragraph of his speech which states: “[Toussaint] forged a thunderbolt and hurled it at what? At the proudest in Europe, the Spaniard, and sent him home conquered; at the most warlike blood in Europe, the French, and put them under his feet; at the pluckiest blood in Europe, the English, and they skulked home to Jamaica”. The use of visualization of the quote helps the audience understand the scale of Toussaint's achievements and achieves Philips goals of praising Toussaint and moving his audience.