Synthesis Essay: I Am A Free Slave

My name is Isabel Gardner. I am a slave, unlawfully taken from my home in Rhode Island where I was a free slave. Unfortunately, I did not have proper documentation with me at the moment so my claim was taken as a falsehood. This is a reason that I am writing to those whom it may concern. Many women, men, and children are taken from their homes and sold like a piece of property to the highest bidder. Then we are treated as if we have no intelligence, and furthermore we have no rights. A former slave known as Phillis Wheatley is the first black slave in America to publish a book. She wrote a poem in this book that depicts her childhood of how she was wrongfully taken from her home in Africa and sold into slavery. Fortunately she was bought by …show more content…
I am fighting for my freedom of slavery and so are many other people. However, that is not the only thing people need freedom from. Oppression, religious persecution, discrimination, hierarchy, and many other things can be considered fighting for freedom. Thomas Paine writes about how a race of people came into the world thinking they are better than everyone else should be questioned. He believes that people should come forward with their beliefs against oppression and outwardly show it. The world is overrun with oppression and societies should search for freedom. I have read Common Sense and I believe the words are dangerous, but they know how to precisely stir things up and to get people thinking. (Source A) When he says, “For all men are created equals, no one by birth could have a right set upon his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever.” I believe that Mr. Paine is saying all people are the same, no one deserves a crown or was born to be higher than another. This is why America has the ability to fight and make it’s own