Essays on Freemen

Assignment 1: Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn

What did the first article guarantee for the inhabitants of the province? What did it accomplish? The first article guaranteed to the inhabitants of the province the freedom of faith, freedom to choose whichever denomination, one preferred as well as entitled representatives of any such denomination to be equally eligible for occupying offices, both executive and legislative. However, the very wording of the Charter is a little bit tricky in relation to religion, because having in mind the condition of believing in the Only Almighty God that was stipulated by Penn in the Charter one can conclude that diversification ...

Introduction

The American Civil War stood out as perhaps the most catastrophic historical event in the history of the United States (US). The sheer propensity of the armed conflict between Union and Confederate forces resulted to more than 600,000 deaths of soldiers from both sides – a number that rendered en masse military recruitment and conscription. The pressure to reach victory was strongly felt among the ranks of Union and Confederate forces that both sides did not hesitate to advertise their need to reinforce their respective regiments. Posters, perhaps the most sophisticated and effective advertising means at the time when the ...

The year 1877 brought in the end of the reconstruction which is arguably one of the most controversial and turbulent era in the history of the United States. It was in this year that America witnessed her first interracial democracy experiment. A vital part of the Reconstruction saw the former slaves change from being a passive victim of the actions of others and made effort towards acquiring new meaning into their newly acquired freedom, and thereby, claiming their rights as full citizens of the Unites States of America. It was the divisive politics, brought about by the Reconstruction, which decided ...

Introduction

The Freedman’s bureau is otherwise known as the United States bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned lands (Freedman's Bureau Act of 1865, 2009). This bureau was formed between 1861 and 1865 with the sole purpose of taking care of the black slaves and the poor whites that lived in the south after the war. Over four million blacks gained their freedom after the Union won the war (Dickerson, 1877). As a result, they were poor and suffered great distress. The reason for this poverty is that most of the economies in the south were entirely dependent of plantation farming. ...

The Western constitutional philosophy is based on the concepts of free choice, free markets, and free enterprises. Yet early societies did not enjoy unlimited freedom since both nature and society impose constraints on minority societies. According to the social contract theory, the rational is to provide for the existence of society as the business increases the freedom of individuals. Freedom and its limits as a concept have traditionally played a significant role in the history of Western thought, drawing attention from thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Rawls. American psychologist, Alexis DeTocqueville regarded personal freedom as the overriding value ...