IVANCAMOU357IN IVANCAMOU357IN Social Studies Answered Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? —Frederick Douglass What is the purpose of this rhetorical question? to highlight the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence and slavery to discuss liberty and equality experienced by all people under the Declaration of Independence to encourage audience participation in the argument about the Declaration of Independence to illustrate that the Declaration of Independence does not state that people are entitled to liberty