Why would sewall's "the selling of joseph" have been controversial for his time? it was the first anti-slavery piece of literature. it was the first anti–indentured servant piece of literature. it was the first piece of literature to support the rights of women. it was the first piece of literature to support the rights of free african americans.

true. the definition explains it: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. this is a dictionary definition that i have looked up in a dictionary.

the rhetorical devices that he used in "common sense" are syntax for his sentence structure and pathos for his emotion against the british unfairly treating the "americans" and logos of what documents that what happened to the pilgrims when they had the mayflower compact and how that the british were wanting to have one religion but the compact said for any religion to be accepted.