In Booker T. Washington’s The Cotton Exposition, the author uses ethos and repetition to effectively argue that by improving social and economic relations between the races will create a lasting bond that defies segregation. In the introductory paragraph, Washington states that the recognition of the race of “American Negro” at the Exposition will do much to “cement the friendship of the two races.” By asserting that the Exposition will help further the friendship between the white Americans and the African Americans, he subtly suggests that this end, this friendship, is what Americans should strive for during the era of deep racial prejudice. Continually, in asking the white Americans to cast down their buckets, Washington also asks them
