With such a strong and provocative amendment, its no wonder it took Americans almost two century’s of embarrassment in order to create such an ideal. It’s amazing that such controversy and confusion could come about from two words who’s meaning are so different. But yet we place them together as so to justify one another. We watch and see freedom as it becomes a hollow concept no less so in the 21st century, than it was in the 17th and 18th century as well. There are two books with which provide us with a basis for such analysis “Myne Owne ground”, by T.H Breen, Stephen Innes and “Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian”, edited by Hunter Dickinson Farish. Through detailed passages we witness our own brothers attempt to establish a solid legal tradition for the absolute enslavement of blacks.

To better understand and furthermore analyze history, it is crucial for one to venture out and make assertions, in hopes of proving and supporting them. In the 17th century slave

Whether it is in the 17th or 18th century freedom and slavery were cause and affect of each other. What caused one affected the other, and what could possibly affect one would in turn cause the other. The mis-treatment of blacks during this time period was also hugely due in part of its social acceptance. If you wore red lens over your eyes your whole life and saw nothing else, then in essence you would know of nothing else. The same principle applies here, whites knew of nothing else.

ry was not merited by color, nor was its enitre focus to enslave only one specific group; in this case that group being black. More importantly, as much as the early English settlers tired to create a society in which mimicked the hierarchal structure of the homeland their success was limited. Newcomers to the Americas were concerned primarily about survival. Inhabitants of this new land included indentured servants and slaves that were both black, white and occasionally Indian. “Whites, blacks, Indians, all comers were fair game in the scramble of wealth (pg49My owne)”

The notion of freedom had yet to be associated with only one particular group. Many blacks were free and owned large amounts of land and assets equivalent of white owners at the same time. Anthony Johnson perfectly demonstr

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