In the lecture given by Maria W. Stewart, who was an African American educator, uses multiple different forms of rhetorical strategies to create a powerful speech, where as in this lecture the most dominate strategy that reoccurs is the use of hyperbole. With the use of hyperbole, Stewarts compares servile labor to the equivalent of slavery.
Within the lecture, Stewarts states in the beginning of the text, “Few white persons of either sex, who are calculated for anything else, are willing to spend their lives and bury their talents in performing mean, servile labor. And such is the horrible idea that I entertain respecting a life of servitude...” , so reviewing the text, Stewarts compares that of pointless demeaning work, compared to slavery