Freedom In The Antebellum Era
American Liberty and Freedom The antebellum era understandings of American freedom and liberties of the 1800s varied in many ways. The path to freedom and liberty for slaves seemed out of reach without any action. Freedom was seen as something that had do with race, class, gender, and knowledge. The writings of personal accounts in this point in history give an in inside and personal vision of what this path was. American’s have the right to and the freedom to pursue happiness.
In this point in time freedom was not like it is today where we are born with it as soon as we take our first breath. In the Antebellum era freedom and liberty was not a right but an throne of power in a race driven society. Nat Turner had a vision of freedom, where …show more content…
(A Georgia slave wrote in 1858, “I take the pleasure of writing you these few [lines] with much regret to inform you …show more content…
The power of learning is a powerful thing. When a master had slaves he would not let his slaves learn how to read. Most slaves did not even know when there birtday was. This path to freedom is one that is earn through the mind and educating yourself to free yourself from your oppressors. (The Indian were totally deprived of their freedom and put Harshs’s fiercest most horrible servitude in captivity.)(Voices). These indians did not know the value of the importance of knowledge and so they were taken advantage of by the invaders. It is important to learn to rise yourself up from the dirt, which is where the ones who have control over your life put you because you had no knowledge of it happening. During this time if you did not learn and read for yourself whatever someone in power told a slave what was fact and what was false the slave would have no choice but to accept it as the truth because they would not know any better. (God creator of heaven and earth and of all things and even when we talk to them of hell in paradise and of other mysteries the headstrong reply that this is good for our country and not for theirs every country)(Voices). To gain your freedom in the Antebellum era you have to first learn why you were chained in the first
In this point in time freedom was not like it is today where we are born with it as soon as we take our first breath. In the Antebellum era freedom and liberty was not a right but an throne of power in a race driven society. Nat Turner had a vision of freedom, where …show more content…
(A Georgia slave wrote in 1858, “I take the pleasure of writing you these few [lines] with much regret to inform you …show more content…
The power of learning is a powerful thing. When a master had slaves he would not let his slaves learn how to read. Most slaves did not even know when there birtday was. This path to freedom is one that is earn through the mind and educating yourself to free yourself from your oppressors. (The Indian were totally deprived of their freedom and put Harshs’s fiercest most horrible servitude in captivity.)(Voices). These indians did not know the value of the importance of knowledge and so they were taken advantage of by the invaders. It is important to learn to rise yourself up from the dirt, which is where the ones who have control over your life put you because you had no knowledge of it happening. During this time if you did not learn and read for yourself whatever someone in power told a slave what was fact and what was false the slave would have no choice but to accept it as the truth because they would not know any better. (God creator of heaven and earth and of all things and even when we talk to them of hell in paradise and of other mysteries the headstrong reply that this is good for our country and not for theirs every country)(Voices). To gain your freedom in the Antebellum era you have to first learn why you were chained in the first