Personal Narrative: I Am A Free African American

People that have this mindset don’t understand that anything a slave does that is out of the order of the master can cause them their life. A slave wont dare to leave the plantation if they do they would hunt them down and punish them hard or kill them. It’s very difficult to be a slave, there is no way out unless if you were an actual freeman or women. The reason you could have a chance is because if the mayor of the city finds out that you became a slave they would go get you and free you, but other than that it’s very difficult to leave and become free. When the mayor comes and gets their citizen it will not be a difficult thing, they can just go where their citizen is and take them back.

When filling out a questionnaire, it is only a matter of time before I come across the predictable: what is your race/ethnicity? I do not have to think long nor hard about my answer. In fact, I do not hesitate to pencil in African American. Why is that? It could very well be that at a glance my skin tone and accent is enough for people to quickly label me as such thus reaffirming my identity.

Ultimately, me being owned as a slave contradicts with two major political documents. From the pamphlet Common Sense, I have read of how Thomas Paine acknowledges the immorality of a certain race to be “so exalted above the rest.” Essentially, it is cruel to allow slaves to be treated as useless property while white men are allowed to ride aimlessly on their horses. You must realize how hypocritical it is to let this continue because the very thing Paine wanted to eliminate, the controlling manner of kings to their subjects, still persists. Also, I have repeatedly heard from The Declaration of Independence that every man is entitled by their Creator the rights of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

but i am allowed to bathe. i get extra food rations . i do not allow my self to think while i am with him. i hate him.but i will live.my spirit is too strong to die in place like this" the slave are battling to get extra food from the white people and get extra thing even the slave hate the white.

My name is Andrew Freeway. I am a slave who escaped from my powerful white owner who did not treat me as a human being. I was treated as a piece of property. I was forced to work days up to 18 hours of hard labor. I was given harsh punishments if I did not work my full potential at all times.

Imagine this if you can Captain; being a slave was so awful it made me ponder if life was worth anything at all. I am a man with my own dreams and desires but yet I was subjected to bow down to my master or otherwise expect his physical blows. Thousands of colored men, women, and children were sold and separated. When I was a slave, I chose to run away to Canada where colored people were protected with the same rights as every other man. Unfortunately, in my journey I came to a standstill where due to the piercing cold and darkness, I was compelled to knock on the nearest door.

America how could you let this happen? A man whose translation for "Make America great again" is "Make America white again" for a country that was solely built on the hardwork of immigrants and the labor of black people. (I won't even be surprised if kkk gets back in action) and can we not even get started on the laws this man has promised to pass? Yes realistically he can't fulfill them all but to have a president that thinks in such a myopic manner is the scariest sh*t ever (sorry I can't cuss in full my mother follows me on social media) I wasn't even following the campaigns at first because I thought they were basically asking you jump off a bridge or jump in front of trailer, but atleast with Hillary there was going to be peace of mind.

Be who you are and don 't let anyone tell you otherwise. These are some words we 're hearing more and more everyday ever since the recent election. A lot of issues have come up ever since the election. People are literally scared because of what the future has to offer with the new elected president. That isn 't something that anyone should have to go through just because of they who are and what they identify as.

America is a free country. Most days I won't think about it, but sometimes I'll thinkable how lucky I am to live in a free country. Freedom is what some people hope for, and I am proud to live in a free country. In a perfect world the entire world would be free. Since that isn't reality there are May countries that have strict rules about religion, men versus women, etc.

In the past I have struggled with my biracial identity. As a child I was confused about which community I belonged in because I am a mix of Navajo and Caucasian. As I got older, I began to question myself and who I was. I felt like I did not belong to either the Native or Caucasian community because in both groups I felt like someone else. I felt as if I had to live two lives that were completely separated.

Many important patriots also agree with me and their messages should be applied to slaves as well as to whites. According to Thomas Paine, the writer of Common Sense, “But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, … the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS.” Likewise, there is no real reason why people are divided into slaves and masters. Nothing makes this right, and it is unreasonable for this reason. As Phillis Wheatly says in her poem “To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth”, “No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain”

Challenges are events that are used to change you for the better should you choose it accept it. The challenges I have faced wasn’t a matter of choice but of something that I have no control over. Some people will tell you it’s a burden, some say it’s an entitlement or free ride. Science says it’s just having a high amount of melatonin due to geographical location for survival. To me though, being black probably one of the biggest challenges a human can have in America at least I find it terribly perplexing.

Heaved I ever experience racism? How did it make me feel? Yes, I have experience racism. It was not the best feeling ever it made me feel like crap. It’s funny how people make you feel if you’re a different race.

Wind your clock back a century or two, and wallow yourself in a situation where you are a runaway in “the land of the free.” You look up at a poster, a mere image of yourself. Not knowing a single word on the placard, you assume that it is nothing but a misused image. In reality, you are entirely wrong. You have been reported as a fugitive, trekking on the land that once was free, but now ruled by the Fugitive Slave Law.

The negative treatment and pain I received as a black girl, and still into my adulthood, it amazes me how I'm still standing tall and strong. It amazes me how people have tried to break me, even my own kind, but I'm still here. Truth is I gotta to have thick skin and protect myself, because I got no choice. If I don't... who will? And that is the everyday life of living as a black woman.