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Foundations Writing Assignment

Foundations Writing Assignment

Q Based on my audio lectures, I am BIG on language and the context of words. Using the readings and all the other source material from this unit, I want you to contextual freedom through the Black experience using the time frame 1619-1861. What weight did the meaning of freedom hold for Black Americans? Did it differ by class, or status? Did the context of freedom change as the nation grew from thirteen colonies and evolved? What are some examples or narratives you can pull from your source material to provide an example of how Black Americans contextualized freedom from other groups within the United States. How did the context of freedom differ from white Americans? Where there any commonalities or hypocrisies that were the undercurrent of the notion of freedom between different races? These are just SOME of the questions to consider when posing this essay but you are more than welcomed to critically engage the material how you like? Before you begin, please review the Q&A on how to score big on written assignments for this course. You have almost two hundred years of history to command in this unit, so I should see some pretty lengthy essay responses. Also remember this assignment is worth eight points of your 100 points. Give it all you got. PreviousNext

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"Now we are free. What do we want? We want education; we want protection; we want plenty of work; we want good pay for it, but not any more or less than anyone else...and then you will see the downtrodden race rise up" —John Adams, a formerly enslaved person. The weight of freedom for Black Americans was nothing less than influential. Freedom for Black Americans meant a future without the fear of separation from their family, an opportunity for education, and working without being punished by the whip. Freedom meant a level of self-reliance. Ultimately, freedom meant the promise of Reconstruction.