All Men Are Created Equal, They Are Endowed By Their Creator With Certain Unalienable Rights, Among These Are Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness?
For my conscious movement I have chosen to use the idea that freedom is not a simple concept and not everybody was freed by the Revolutionary War. Freedom means very different things for different groups of people. For my larger image I have chosen The Liberty Bell because it is a symbol of freedom and liberty. It was symbolic to slave abolitionists who devoted their lives to end slavery. There is a phrase engraved in the bell, “ "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants Thereof.” The phrase means that everybody deserves to be free, this is a true symbol of …show more content…
There is the obvious losers to the Revolution which are the British. They were included because they lost a lot of money throughout the war, they lost territory, they lost men in battle, and later they go on to lose their king to madness. They were crushed by the outcome of the war and their country was left in utter devastation and humiliation for losing to a small group of colonists who were originally their own country! While they were the clear losers of the war, there were those lost their everyday freedom like the Native Americans, the women, and the slaves. The Native Americans were debatably the ones who lost the most because they lost their land, their people, their culture, and most importantly they had no say in it. Keep in mind that for colonists and the British the land is just land there is no further connection to it but, for Native Americans it is a part of their culture and their tribes, it had been in their families for hundreds of years and no matter what they did the result was inevitable. They would lose their sacred land. The next group of people who did not gain liberty were the women who lived during that time. There were women who were spies and who helped in the war but for the most part they were treated as much lesser than man. Stuck in the house cooking and cleaning, common …show more content…
The first source I pulled from was the article called, “Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence?” Specifically a line that said “To them, separation from Britain was as much, if not more, about racial fear and exclusion as it was about inalienable rights.” This quote, and frankly entire article, helped me bust through the barrier of a purely patriotic, “our country is perfect and the founding fathers were the most honest people to ever live,” mindset. It opened up pandora's box and in it I found the idea that our founding fathers may very well have been people with very bad ulterior motives for creating this document. That everything written, including the promise for freedom, may have been written with no intention of fulfilment. Reading this article was a crucial step to getting where I am now with this idea. Another source I used was an article called, “American Indians and the American Revolution, 1775-1783.” Once I found my idea I was trying to think of all of the groups that lost their freedom instead of gaining it and I felt I was missing someone. When I came to this article I realized it was the Natives I was missing because they are so absent when we talk about the Revolution. One line from this article inspired me most, it said, “The revolution was a devastating experience for many Indian people and marked the beginning of a new era in their history.” This
For my conscious movement I have chosen to use the idea that freedom is not a simple concept and not everybody was freed by the Revolutionary War. Freedom means very different things for different groups of people. For my larger image I have chosen The Liberty Bell because it is a symbol of freedom and liberty. It was symbolic to slave abolitionists who devoted their lives to end slavery. There is a phrase engraved in the bell, “ "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants Thereof.” The phrase means that everybody deserves to be free, this is a true symbol of …show more content…
There is the obvious losers to the Revolution which are the British. They were included because they lost a lot of money throughout the war, they lost territory, they lost men in battle, and later they go on to lose their king to madness. They were crushed by the outcome of the war and their country was left in utter devastation and humiliation for losing to a small group of colonists who were originally their own country! While they were the clear losers of the war, there were those lost their everyday freedom like the Native Americans, the women, and the slaves. The Native Americans were debatably the ones who lost the most because they lost their land, their people, their culture, and most importantly they had no say in it. Keep in mind that for colonists and the British the land is just land there is no further connection to it but, for Native Americans it is a part of their culture and their tribes, it had been in their families for hundreds of years and no matter what they did the result was inevitable. They would lose their sacred land. The next group of people who did not gain liberty were the women who lived during that time. There were women who were spies and who helped in the war but for the most part they were treated as much lesser than man. Stuck in the house cooking and cleaning, common …show more content…
The first source I pulled from was the article called, “Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence?” Specifically a line that said “To them, separation from Britain was as much, if not more, about racial fear and exclusion as it was about inalienable rights.” This quote, and frankly entire article, helped me bust through the barrier of a purely patriotic, “our country is perfect and the founding fathers were the most honest people to ever live,” mindset. It opened up pandora's box and in it I found the idea that our founding fathers may very well have been people with very bad ulterior motives for creating this document. That everything written, including the promise for freedom, may have been written with no intention of fulfilment. Reading this article was a crucial step to getting where I am now with this idea. Another source I used was an article called, “American Indians and the American Revolution, 1775-1783.” Once I found my idea I was trying to think of all of the groups that lost their freedom instead of gaining it and I felt I was missing someone. When I came to this article I realized it was the Natives I was missing because they are so absent when we talk about the Revolution. One line from this article inspired me most, it said, “The revolution was a devastating experience for many Indian people and marked the beginning of a new era in their history.” This