The Freedom Of The Body

Flags burning under raining bombs, gunshots echoing through a field of raining terror, while hiding underground for the day where humanity can roam free again; situations as so aren’t exactly what people imagine when thinking about one’s future. Every death was honored by those who lived; lives lost during wars of any kind are unlike lives lost in our country today, not for the value of those once living are greater than another, but from how much those lives mean to this day. Establishment and preservation of freedom wasn’t easy and will never be easy; many people served until their last breath, for the freedoms of our lives today. That is why we must continue to grasp for freedom, and to establish and preserve our freedom most effectively we must have the heart to be free, and have united dedication to freedom itself.

“Not only did slaves believe that they would be chosen by the Lord, there is evidence that many of them felt their owners would be denied salvation” (34). Levine claimed that the slaves uses their beliefs and religion as a “means of escape and opposition” because it gave them a “serious alternative to the societal system created by southern slaveholders” (54.)

The Bible’s verses concerning slavery contradict other verses in several places when discussing slavery and the treatment of slaves. Ephesians 6:5-9 instructs masters to “give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.” Galatians 3:28 states that “[T]here is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” Again, the Bible illustrates that slaves were equal to all others, stating “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, … whether we be bond of free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” Abolitionists undoubtedly used these quotes in order to put an end to slavery.

“Whatever cultivation and improvement could be carried on by means of such slaves, was properly carried on by their master. It was at his expense. The seed, the cattle, and the instruments of husbandry, were all his. It was for his benefit. Such slaves could acquire nothing but their daily maintenance.”

In February 1790, two Quaker deputations request a House calling for the federal government to put an end to African slave trade. The Constitutional Convention from New York is trying to end the slavery, but no actions are to take place until 1808. Furthermore, the Pennsylvania Abolition Society is signed by Benjamin Franklin, “it urged the Congress to take such measures in their wisdom, as the powers with which they are invested will authorize, for promoting the abolishing of slavery and discouraging every species of traffic in slavery” (83). First, the deputations suggest that both slavery and slave trade is discordant to the values of American Revolution. Second, it challenges the claim that the Constitution prohibited action. The “general welfare” is a way to avoid it.

The irony of this is that slave owners saw no wrong in what they were doing, regardless of how they treated their respective slaves. Slavery, as an institution, was from the perspective of the slave owners, justified. Kolchin describes that, in response, slaves were overtly resistive to their predicament at times, while others provided less obvious resistance in the form of slow work, feigning illness, and even sabotage.

The Charleston petitioners were asking for a repeal of the 1740 “Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negros and other Slaves’. This act prohibited free black’s equal treatment with in the judicial system, by denying them the right to a trial by jury and denying the ability to testify under oath. The group that lead this movement was known as the “Free Men of Color”. This document shows the inequality that was in the South colonies and showed the inequality was not only viewed among colonist but also among state officials. By taking away those rights for African Americans this gave attackers an escape for their punishment for the atrocities they committed by taking away the power of testifying under oath. This shows the Judicial system in the South was giving free slaves that had citizenship a disadvantage in the court room. The main argument used to justify the repeal of “The Negro Act” was they were free tax paying citizens and they should get all the rights of a free tax paying citizen and should not have any rights taken away because of their race. The petitioners reminded the Senate that they had "since the Independence of the United States contributed and do now contribute to the support of the Government by cheerfully paying their taxes." In the end their petition was denied and it was not till the later 1800s when the “Act for the better Ordering and Governing Negros and other Slaves” would be

One might ask the importance of civil liberties after so many years. The answer is that we are all touched by these liberties every day. Even though civil liberties were embedded into the Bill of Rights in the late 1800’s, we today, as Americans, still have the right to be protected against any abusive power used by the government (Bianco & Canon, 2015, p. 106). Although Americans are protected fully today, it took over a century for all civil liberties to be implemented. With several civil liberties in place, which is most important? Which liberty protects us as Americans, most significantly? I believe all of our civil liberties are equally as beneficial and lead to the safety of every citizen in the United

In the Southern states, Slaves would work to make cotton in Plantation field's, they had no rights to anything and there only job was only to work, the suffering from working hard led to fear because the women would be raped by their Master's and the men would have to leave their children and wife to work on plantations or who could plow their fields, no slaves that were women and men had no freedom, during the time as being a slave, the title that have focused on was the religion they had thought that Christianity ''became a hope and resistance'' on page 433. Through the days of becoming a slave man have resisted, some have escaped, and some have done, not survive quickly enough, the legalization of slavery in the southern states made a big impact for African- Americans because many were enslaved to be taken away from their families and so led to white people as their ''Masters'' many women that were enslaved have been raped and used to work on the plantation field and also plow the field.

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Analyze the origins and development of slavery in Britain’s North American colonies in the period 1619 to 1776. Support your answers with evidence from the assigned readings.

During this time period the slaves were allowed to leave the plantations or homes but only to run errands for the masters. While in public the slaves were expected to behave, move out of the way of whites, and never strike a white person. This was present in the book The Inventions of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd because charlotte was a slave who was allowed to go the city for goods, she one day would not move out of the way and then struck a white women, this then lead to her being taken to the work house and being punished. (Kidd. The Invention of Wings, 2014) So not only were they not allowed to react in self-defense but they were also not allowed to be taught how to read or write. If a slave were to break any of these rules then depending on the offense and where it occurred was what determined the punishment. The punishments during this time could have been getting sent to the work house which is where they whip, and force slaves to work until they have served their time or they are at the mercy of their masters. (Kidd. The Invention of Wings, 2014)The masters can do whatever type of punishment they see fit for their slaves, and there was no laws protecting them. The only thing that protected these slaves was their value to the master’s wealth. Although in reality a lot of the slave owners were actually not hostile or

Harry Frankfurt essay “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” is centered around two major ideas. First is a person’s will is a set of effective first-order desires, and the second is that a person is a creature that has second-order volitions. Frankfurt offes the concept of a person vested with first-order desires and second-order desires which play the major role in decision making process.

Critically assess Hobbes 's claim that freedom consists in nothing more than the absence of physical or legal constraints.

“The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to