Life of A Slave Girl & Frederick Douglass

Though these two writers seem to be writing about the same thing, I think the audience and the pathos as well as the ethos are what sets them apart. In the life of a salve girl she seems to not really have that much of an audience. It's like she can't have one because nobody quite knows who she is, which makes them less interested. There was pathos all up and through her story. It seemed as if almost the whole time she was trying to appeal to people's emotions using sympathy. She wanted us to feel bad for her and her lifestyle. Se doesn't have much ethos seeing that she is completely unknown, which gives her little but close to no real credibility.
As for the narrative of Frederick Douglass' life, he is a bit different. He seems to have more of an audience because of his story and the fact that he was a freed slave. In those times most slaves never got a chance to know what being free felt like, and that made them want to read it more. There wasn't much pathos through his narrative because sure, he was a slave, but the fact that he was freed left little for sympathy. However, there is ethos. He has a lot of credibility just because if his name. People are going to believe what he writes more than Harriet seeing that he is known and has that high level of credibility. But one thing they do both have is intelligence, and that alone is what sets them apart from a lot of the other slaves.