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Jean-Louis Emmanuel-Christy Professor Timothy Coogan SSH 101/8757 Themes In American History/Indentured Servants 21 February 2021

1.What practical reason does the notice give for eliminating indentured servitude? 2. Why do you think the notice singles out the sale of “White people” as contrary to liberty

The late eighteenth century is marked and labeled as an active period in the American Revolution and desire of freedom, liberty, and respect of human rights. Although contestable and seen as bias due to the maintaining of black slavery within the colonies for many decades in between, yet the revolutionary period in the United States was here and there enhanced by several actions that the historians claimed as small contribution. To adhere to that perspective, we can cite in 1784 the arrival of a ship with many indentured servants in the soil of the United States that was going to be declared free on the land shortly after. The reason behind this decision, which was about to be effective on a national and official level in the beginning of the 1800, was because of the fact that any citizens that were on the American soil ought to have the right to work for wages, or to earn a farm or a shop as opposed to servitude and slavery in which people were working for free for the sole profit of their masters or owners. Therefore, like mentioned earlier, the notice of liberty and freedom singles out white folks as being non-sellable because of exactly the hypocrisy and absurd conduct of the Americans as the poet Wheatland wrote in letter describing the desire to create a white hegemony while keeping

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blacks in slavery. It was not political correct at that time to sell white neither as servants nor slaves but the practice has continued for decades within the African American....