John Parker : Promised Land

As a small child, Parker’s idea of freedom was not nearly as evolved as it comes to be. At first, his longing for freedom is simply one of physical escape. On his first trek to be traded, he experienced one of his first glimpses of enslavement, being forced to walk “chained to an old man” (Parker 26). Luckily, the kind old man gave him freedom of movement by making “the weight of the chain as light as he could” (Parker 26).

During his period of enslavement, he becomes “resentful of the freedom of nature” (Parker 27). Through his resent of the freedom of nature, he throws a rock at a bird with all of his “youth and heart of hatred” (Parker 27) hoping to kill it and with it its freedom to simply live. These things that surround him that cannot even comprehend the freedom that they are experiencing are not being fettered by the emotional and physical chains of enslavement, while he, a human being, is.

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Unfortunately, his path to freedom hits a snare when he is caught aboard the ship. His ability to be a free man is hindered by the fact that he could now possibly be a jailed man. Luckily, he is able to have a better sense of freedom than in jail by being sent to “the country to work in the open air” (Parker 45), giving him just a small amount of the freedom of nature.

He has a “pleasant” life as a slave physically, but mentally “the injustices and restraints against… (his) own initiative” were more than he could bear (Parker 70). This hatred towards the institution of slavery not only gave him the desire to be free, but the desire for others to be free. As a free man, his journey has just begun. He now is to live a free life and along the way, help others reach his same fate.

After being captured yet again, he learns that he must not be too rash in his escape attempts. Seeing as he had “the freedom of the place”, he has time to plan what he will do in New Orleans. He has to wait until the exact moment when everything has lined up properly for his escape. He once again manages to escape, but not for long.

He is able to gain his freedom through this method. Unfortunately, his bold and very cocky attitude for his freedom almost get him in trouble. “Being free” causes him to try to stir up a lot of trouble, which could have caused him to lose his freedom. His papers are the only thing standing between him and re-enslavement, if his former master had not given him new papers, he would have been a slave once m

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