Russel Menard From Servant To Freeholder Analysis
What I first wanted to start off with the definition of Freeholder according to Webster’s Dictionary it means to be “elected” to something. When I first read this I felt a since of pride probably the same sort of feeling these men that once gave their lives away just to start new and when they became free they became something great with the lives that they have earned. Russel Menard in From Servant to Freeholder: Status Mobility and Property Accumulation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland connects you with the men that lived through these times and made you feel the same joy that they once felt when they became freeholders. The main thing that I really couldn’t believe were the six men that became court justices four of them were once servants