Freedom Walkers: A Short Story Of Freedom Walker

After reading the assigned literature, I have now cast a light on several issues that are currently causing problems today. The article titled, “Let’s Make A Slave,” was depressing because it almost forced one to go back in time and feel the plight of Africans Americans before slavery was outlawed. William Lynch traveled a great ways to inform the people of the Virginia Colony about slavery and how it should truly be done. As I was reading, it seemed as though William Lynch was reading the instructions for a product (and not a human being) but he actually was talking about people (African Americans). The speech that he prepared was delivered was so much conviction that it made it very hard to believe that African Americans could have been treated any other way. The Europeans (during slavery) did not respect Black people and regarded to them as “uncivilized niggers” (The Black Arcade Liberation Library, 1970,p2) and sought nothing more than to treat them like the “money making machines” they were.

Certainly, freedom was supposed to be “freer”” for those slaves that had fought for their rights after years of submissionn, but, unfortunately, many white Southern people continued to ignore the law by not showing any respect for Africans-Americans. Because of the radical reconstruction in the south, the African-Americans were a step closer from the same political

“Freedom Walkers” and “JoAnn Robinson” are stories that really talked about how people back then really mistreated people from another race. Blacks didn’t have a variety of choices as whites did. They were discriminated from lots of choices they had wanted

Blackmon provides many stories in his book about what the slaves to forced laborers went through and how they felt about the new so called “freedom” they gained. The Black Americans prior to the Emancipation Proclamation have never seen the slightest clue to what freedom could even feel like. “Some of the old slaves said they too weren’t sure what “freedom” really was”

 In today’s society, racism and stereotyping occur in every aspect of life. No one should ever take anything for face value before they examine it first. In reading the narrative, “The View from the Bottom Rail” by James Davidson and Mark Lytle and “Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas” by Harold Bloom. I became very aware on how American history can be looked at as one sided or bias. Even in today’s society, there is still a lot of biasness presented in American history that is told when it is related to the history of slavery.  For us to understand history, we must enable ourselves to look deeper into the articles and examine the prejudices and the source

In document C it has a speech from a black graduating student that was top of his class, and if you read it is shows you that they aren't free it says something that makes them change.The blacks had no hope they might have been smart but they didn't need it for anything because most white people are running jobs in the north and it would mostly likely be impossible to get a job if your an African American so what's the point he says "should I be a merchant no one will employ me'' he also says "he wouldn't be let into a white persons office" how will he apply for a job when whites won't even speak to him. Blacks weren't free to begin with I don't get why people thought just because the blacks could do whatever they want with other blacks make them free. They wouldn't be able to make money and work endless the job had a black boss that is just straight unfair because most people in the north were white so they couldn't get a job very easy and if they were working for the whites it would probably be doing something like the south was doing like farm work or picking cotton and being a straight slave all over

This particular section was very interesting to me, even after slavery, African Americans continued to be treated unjustly. Many people do not understand the hope that our people held on to while being treated less than an animal. I agree with Elizabeth Keckley words, if the people would come together in the bonds of peace – how much better the world would be (Gates & Smith, 2014). African American men put their lives on the line to fight in the civil war. I can’t even imagine seeing death every single day and to be treated unequally to the next man.

In the South, the slaves were treated poorly. The free slaves were discriminated against because of their skin color. At the time, many Blacks became free because of the reduced plantation profits in the late 1700s. Regardless of their freedom, they were still working for white employers and had many restrictions. They were limited through freedom of movement, economics options, and protection by the law. The book gives the example of Ester Fells who was beaten by her White neighbor because she was ‘disturbing his peace’. The police, in addition, whipped Fells more for “being insolent to a white person”. However, free Blacks boys could become apprentices and eventually make independent living.

Slavery is a dehumanizing and cruel part of American history. In “The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass” Douglass describes his horrible experience as a slave and the ignorance of people. Douglass begins his narrative by describing how he witnessed how unjust and horrific slavery could be as he watched his aunt being whipped. As he got older, he moved to Baltimore where his master’s wife was teaching him how to read but then his master puts a stop to the lessons making Douglass realize just how important education is and how that will lead him to freedom. America’s “land of the free” was only free for white people during the slavery era that resulted in acts that showed how wrong society was to oppress those who had a different skin tone.

In this picture from my observations is a white man declaring something to the black people of the time. This picture shows how afraid or how the white man treated them by the separation in the picture and how they represent themselves to the white man. Slavery was a huge part and struggle during this time period. Black people weren’t good for anything but to do what the white man said to them. This is a heartbreaking time; everyone should be treated like a human no matter what color they are. President Abraham Lincoln brought to America, “a new birth of freedom” (1995, Foner). He tried to make an effort to end slavery and show what freedom means in America. This helped future events in the Reconstruction and form American to be the county it is today with our equal

Labeling happens all over the world, labeling mostly happens in negative ways. Labeling was the number one reason for hate in the 1900’s. Labeling was the biggest reason for Hitler killing the Jews, the Salem Witch Trial, Joseph Stalin, and Slavery by labeling the blacks, and Isis wanting to kill everyone and take over. Labeling rarely happens in a good way it is mostly 90% negative.

In the autobiography of Frederick Douglass; he talked about how hard it was growing up in the south as an African American slave, trying to learn how to read and write. When I was reading Douglass's story; it kept bringing me back to how harsh my high school years were. In high school, I wasn't accepted by many of the students and was racially profiled and labeled because of my ethnicity. Douglas’s autobiography proves that even overtime, society has not changed all that much; when it comes to accepting people for who or where they came from.

Even though freedom has been our nation’s identity for its entire existence, our nation has suffered “dark ages” when the freedoms of African Americans were repressed. During the period of slavery, African Americans were forced to labor under often cruel and gruesome conditions, for their white masters. Solomon Northup, a free man forcefully made a slave, describes his thoughts on slavery in his 12 Years a Slave:

According to Margaret Walker, the writers from past, both whites and black, were involved in a racial battle; the white ones were apologizing for the slavery while the black ones were protesting against the slave system. She said that the white child was raised to regard race as more important than humanity, while the Black child has educated to imitate the white world as superior to his and thus taught to hate himself. This means that the education of white people was based on being aware of the class of race to which they belong. As Walker says, they considered race to be more important than humanity itself.

Freedom on my mind expressed a sad struggle against segregation and unjust in the Mississippi and how a brave many stood to fight. The straw boss who was in charge of the fields would say “The kids are already too big for school” to keep black children out of school and work them. One main freedom rider that stuck out to me was how Endesha Ida Mae Holland who was working for a white family and at the very young age of 11 was sexually assaulted. It would be appalling, girls were being raped by white men and could not tell their parents because their parents might be killed. Unfortunality this and many other sadly reports of cold-heartedness was not uncommon. This was a very disheartened time of unequally for southern black people.