Free and Not Free
Solomon was a free slave. He encountered the beauty of “freedom”, which is described as having an economical and social life with total liberty. Even though free black people at that time (in the 19th century), really weren’t able to follow a stable life of liberty and justice, they were still better off being pretentiously “free” than to be tormented every day, being slaves. Solomon understood the meaning being a slave because he experienced it in a way he would’ve never really thought of. But the true importance to his experience is that he had the opportunity to tell of how brutal one person can be to another, and how inhumane a person can be. Like Solomon, there were also many other people who have been driven to the misfortune of being kidnapped and held into the white man’s business of slavery. Many of these kidnapped people were well acquainted with Solomon, whom these people told of their stories to. People like Clemens Ray, and Eliza contributed on telling their stories. Telling stories on “how their unfortunate race was subjected to the disadvantages”, as Solomon described when he was speaking of his father. But, what is slavery? Many books and people best define slavery, by describing people who wor
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Approximate Word count = 1252
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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