Give Me Liberty
Give me Liberty
The theme of liberty is a common value, which has always inflamed human’s hearts in all historic events. But what do we mean by liberty? It is a complex concept, but in this essay we will sum up this idea as the ability to do no matter when or what without any abusif oppression of someone else. People are always ready to defend this abstract concept with words and, if necessary, guns. However, even if this idea of liberty is common to everyone, it does not mean that everybody have access to this fundamental concept. Indeed if we give American history a closer look we will see that today’s obvious right was not that obvious nor allowed to all individuals in the oppressed society at the time. In this essay we will discuss how this notion of liberty shaped the different Revolts and Revolutions against inequality. It will especially focus on Bacon’s Rebellion and Nat Turner’s Revolt relating them to the notion of liberty, democracy and the American Experience.
Only a free white man was truly able to talk about freedom at this time. The right of liberty was refused to native Americans, their land get conquered by the Puritans and almost all of them had been exterminated. The native Americans were not considered citizens in their own land, according to the Marshall in the case Cherokee Nation versus Georgia in 1931. By this way they could not be protected by justice and had to either accept the oppression of Puritans or be kill. The situation for black people was not really better. Most of them were slaves, working in terrible and hard conditions and were considered as a kind of kine. For each part of our individuality, there is always one, which will dominate the other. The dominant will never be able to understand the dominated’s feelings, so he could be insensitive with the dominated’s situation. This could explain why the white people, who were obviously the dominant ones, were able to oppress the other races. Nevertheless, this was not the only
The theme of liberty is a common value, which has always inflamed human’s hearts in all historic events. But what do we mean by liberty? It is a complex concept, but in this essay we will sum up this idea as the ability to do no matter when or what without any abusif oppression of someone else. People are always ready to defend this abstract concept with words and, if necessary, guns. However, even if this idea of liberty is common to everyone, it does not mean that everybody have access to this fundamental concept. Indeed if we give American history a closer look we will see that today’s obvious right was not that obvious nor allowed to all individuals in the oppressed society at the time. In this essay we will discuss how this notion of liberty shaped the different Revolts and Revolutions against inequality. It will especially focus on Bacon’s Rebellion and Nat Turner’s Revolt relating them to the notion of liberty, democracy and the American Experience.
Only a free white man was truly able to talk about freedom at this time. The right of liberty was refused to native Americans, their land get conquered by the Puritans and almost all of them had been exterminated. The native Americans were not considered citizens in their own land, according to the Marshall in the case Cherokee Nation versus Georgia in 1931. By this way they could not be protected by justice and had to either accept the oppression of Puritans or be kill. The situation for black people was not really better. Most of them were slaves, working in terrible and hard conditions and were considered as a kind of kine. For each part of our individuality, there is always one, which will dominate the other. The dominant will never be able to understand the dominated’s feelings, so he could be insensitive with the dominated’s situation. This could explain why the white people, who were obviously the dominant ones, were able to oppress the other races. Nevertheless, this was not the only