From the very beginning when settlers came across sea, colonizing the indigenous people and exploiting their land had begun the history of America. A region along the Rio Grande where the Pueblo society existed had been overthrown by the Spanish settlers. Colonist established a pattern of violence and terror so as to scare the Pueblos into obedience. Spanish created a system called the encomienda system where Pueblo Indians would be required

As slavery continued to multiply in the southern states many abolitionists were also fighting against it. Dred Scott, who basically fought all his life for freedom, became one of the most famous cases in its history. The court decided that all people of African ancestry, slaves as well as those who were free, could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court. After being transferred from one owner to the next, Scott finally ended up under Dr. Emerson’s widow, Irene Sanford. She refused to allow Scott and his wife Harriet Robinson to buy their freedom for three hundred dollars. Dred Scott then sought freedom from the courts. Scott was tossed back and forth from the Missouri Supreme Court to St. Louis circuit court then to The United States Circuit Court of Missouri and finally to the United States Supreme Court. The decision that would keep Scott from being a freeman is “just the kind of guarantee for slave labor [proslavery firebrands] sought. Some went so far as to demand the resumption of the Atlantic slave trade.”(WBA, pg. 582). It was imperative that Scott win his freedom or else the south would win again and proslavery would further spread, even to the free states. Dred Scott was purchased by his previous owner’s sons and childhood friends, Peter Blow, and he and his wife were set free. He died nine months after. Dred Scott’s life is a typical life of a black man, even better since he was set free. During the slave period, America was not a comforting place for a black man and his family to live.

On a different perspective, in the early nineteenth century, Henry David Thoreau, an inspirational writer in search of spiritual truth writes about the negative view of the dominant values of America. Thoreau’s opinion

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