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-Talks about how it’s ridiculous to call ourselves a Christian nation and still treat others as those Israelites in Egypt and other who suffered under agent heathens nations
-They tell us of the Israelites in Egypt, the Helots in Sparta, and of the Roman Slaves, which last were made up from almost every nation under heaven, whose sufferings under those ancient and heathen nations, were, in comparison with ours, under this enlightened and Christian nation
-even these inferior society’s did not relate their fellow humans as being apart of a different species
-Talks about how it is ironic that they believe in the same God and will be judged at the same tribunal in which their only master is God but preachers will come up to black people and tell them to respect their masters and speak of whippings when he is a man who should be of peace.
-It is discussed at length on how it is ironic that Jefferson spoke of slaves from other times spoke of their education but they were white so they had a different disposition
-why should they be forced to support the very people who keep them and their children in bondage

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-“ it affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi. The measures authorized by Congress at its session with a view to the long-standing controversy with them, have had the happiest affects“
-“ I can speak from direct knowledge; and I feel no difficulty and affirming that the interest of the Indians in the extensive territory embraced by them; is to be paid for at its fair value and that no more favorable terms have been granted to the United States, that would have been reasonably excepted in a negotiation with civilized men”
-“ they have found at once a recompense for past sufferings, and an incentive to industrious habits in the abundance and comforts around them”

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This newspaper article is most likely a report on progress from the Indian removal. It seems to justify their removal and treatment in past years by detailing how they are much happier in their new lands and it was reached in a fair agreement. This is completely absent of a native perspective and if they flirt like they had reached a fair and honest deal for being removed off land that they had built their lives on. The author talks little about how they might have felt in this deal saying that readers can trust that he believes they are happy, as if they hadn’t just been forced out after the United States decided that they wanted their land. Coming from Maine who is to say that this author had any authority to claim this.

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-“We want a Constitution that will set the natural rights of the meanest African and the most abject beggar, upon an equal footing with those citizens of the greatest wealth and eqiuipage’ both Republicans and federalist seized on the civil rights issue in order to win votes
-“ both admitted that slavery was a moral but were unwilling to fight for its immediate abolition
-free state did not mean freedom and rights
-“ The vast majority of white immigrants in Ohio opposed equality between the races; they also wanted to exclude blacks from the political culture of the new state ironically… It was in the interest of the white majority to support the democratic rights of every man”

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This book goes to further prove how the real citizens that help power in the United States were those of the white male majority. In the case of Ohio that was a free state that did not have free rights for African-Americans, it was a highly talked about topic. The Republican group often went back-and-forth on wishing for equal opportunity for all and wanting to keep African-Americans out of the political system. They argued for quality when they knew it would help them get votes that they needed to stay in their positions. Just as if Jefferson did to get into office. Yet again showing the hypocritical standards of the early United States claiming for all meant to be created equal and then to use justifications to claim how it was only white men and then fight for African-Americans only one convenient for them.

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-Cherokee left defenseless when the white armed Georgians came to take their land
-The government declared all Cherokee’s laws null and void and that they could no longer be a witness or parry in any suit where a white man should be defendant. This which was the only thing protecting them as this allowed the state of Georgia to annex them without them being present to voice their opinion.
-Anyone trying to help the Cherokee where arrested
After a treaty was signed by those who didn’t even represent the Cherokee nation as a whole the treaty was finalized and they were forced out of their home
-“ men working in the field were arrested and driven to the stockades. Women were drag from their homes by soldiers whose language they could not understand. Children were often separated from their parents and driven into the stock is with the sky for a blanket in the earth for a pillow.
-it is still not finalized the amount of Cherokee that died and the original Cherokee population size compared to those who reached the reserves
-“American Indians had been the primary inhabitants for centuries, but, by 1800, Cherokee tribes in the area had been virtually conquered, and whites considered it safe to immigrate.”

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This book details how the Cherokee were removed and forced onto the trail of tears after white men in Georgia wanted to annex the land for themselves. From knowledge from a prior article, the Cherokee had originally been recognized along with their constitution by the US government. However, after while when white men wanted the land of the Cherokee occupied they had the power to decide that the Cherokee laws no longer mattered and they could take what they wanted. Their greed separated parents and killed children many who died of whooping cough. This goes to demonstrate how often minorities in early America were allowed to be a part of the land of the free only when convenient for the white men. But when there’s no longer serve for their purposes they could revoke this privilege and take what they wanted. Leaving devastating after effects behind

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-“The darkness, route violence, and ignorance of former ages might be an excused for political system that thus daily exposes the Nobelist of women to the world to impertinence an insult; but the nation now basking in the light of liberty have not the smallest excuse”
-“There can never again be peace and quiet in the land so long as men are rulers and all women or subjects; so long as the most ignorant and degraded man has a voice and making the laws which the wisest and best women must obey”
-women want to vote and do not wish to stay under a law in which they have no say in
-women and men were meant to work together not apart and neither group will do better alone than if together.

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-slave points out how if Jefferson calls for equality then why does he not take action and how America was built on striving for freedom and breaking with the old way but stopped that fight at Yorktown
-arguing that from the slave’s perspective, whites had merely democratized the institution of aristocracy by legally protecting the rights of a privileged class of men to own others
-says how we are no better than England as England is no worse than slavery
Attacks thoses character who claim to be good although stay in slavery
-“To prove our human- nature, sir, and our rights as citizens of these states, we have only to appeal to the Declaration of Independence, which says…that all men, (not all white men) are created equal…with inherent & unalienable rights…What think you now sir, are we men, or are we beasts?”
-says how England is better than us in comparison with how the black American is treated
-Ironically calls for framers to be happy for their is no lord controlling them and their fruits when the black slaves are the ones farmer in
-“What your reasons can be for keeping open that execrable market where MAN shall be bought and sold, which you wrote so warmly against in the year ’76, and condemn’d as a mark of disgrace”
-makes it clear that abolition is okay only when convent politically for the white men

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-“I maintain that they [men and women] are equal, and that God never invested fallen man with un- limited power over his fellow man”
-“Woman has been placed by John Quincy Adams, side by side with the slave, whilst he was contend- ing for the right side of petition. I thank him for ranking us with the oppressed
promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank”
-“We are much in the situation of the slave. Man has asserted and assumed authority over us”
-Calls for equality between women and men
-shows how men degrade women and only use them for themselves
-talks about the injustice concerning the authority that men have over women

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-Richard Allen serves as a black minister to st. George Methodist Church
-The black congregation want it to be able to worship God and sit in the church but they were asked to move so he asked them to wait until prayer was over but they forced him out of his seat
-They left after increased discrimination from st George.
-They tried to create their own meeting space and they were declined to be entered as a Methodist Church even though they were not welcome at their own church
-Finally purchases a space to be open to all blacks to be with God
-Even after being rejected by his own church he still wanted to be a part of the Methodist Church as he thought it was best for the learned and unlearned

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-the Cherokee were under a constitution and protected by the United States they made advancements in science arts and culture
-They had things in common with the American man
-“Little did they anticipate, that when taught to think and feel as the American citizen, and to have with him a common interest, they were to be despoiled by their guardian, to become strangers and wanderers in the land of their fathers, forced to return to the sav- age life, and to seek a new home in the wilds of the far west, and that without their consent”
-Cherokee responded to various attacks by American settlers prior to their agreement with the United States
-tried to ask for peace in the way that the civilized white man would

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-He talks of African Americans odor in order to distinguish them away from proper people, white men, like himself
-He talks about black women as relating to monkeys
“uniformly as is the preference of the orangutan for the black women over those of his own species.”
-He believes they require less sleep
-He talks about how they love as if their way is strange and sub par to the white man’s way
-Any positive he writes about them is combatted with how they are no better than the whites
-He provides this as reasoning to why they should be kept out of proper white society
-“Among the blacks is misery enough “
-“Staining the blood of his master”

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- she talks about how both men and women have vibrant souls capable of achieving greatness but some men have the minds locked to the opportunity
-they have no ambition nor openness to the though of change
-talks how she sees men thinking women need to submit themselves an inferior soul yet their souls are the same it is just lack of opportunity that holds them down
-“They rob us of the power t'improve, And then declare we only trifles love; Yet haste the era, when the world shall know, That such distinctions only dwell below; The soul unfetter'd, to no sex confiníd, “
-She ask the question in what ways are the female sex inherently inferior
-they cannot be what they have not been given an opportunity to become nor can they know what they were never presented
-She talks about how many times females maybe not be the one redoing the credit but are the driving force
“How many industrious are we at improving a hint”
-It proves women are a driving force
-she provides a story in which the female is denied education and bitterness controls her as her mind ins empty and bored
Versus a future in which the world of education is open to her and she can see the stars and adore heaven
-women happy and filled with education will not be seen as needed mental attention
-she uses religious analogies as to sow how women and men are the same souls created under god.

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-She is advocating for women’s rights and trying to convince others, through this letter to her husband who has political control, to allow women to be given an opportunity.
-She states how all men are naturally tyrannical
-She urges him to use his power not as master but as friends and to use the power for their happiness
-“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”

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This newspaper takes on the questions and misunderstandings of women in 1874 as it is assumed, by men, that women are content tending to houses and being subservient. This paper being from Portland Oregon has a view influenced by a greater opportunity of women in the northwest versus a paper written in New York. It foucused on allowing the audience to see a better future with women apart of it. It like many prior articles brings in the fact that America is hypocritical for it to be called a grand nation with prosperous freedom if only the white men are allowed to enjoy such freedom. So if they are to live up to this title they need to stop making excuses to keep women in what they believe is their place. Similarly seen with the African American population and their arguments as to why the United States should not continue to have slavery. In both it asks the men who run the government to allow place in the society for others to too be called citizens.

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The letter from a slave to Thomas Jefferson asks him to finally get rid of slavery. He points out all the ways that to God slavery is inhuman as to show that if this is to be a Christian country better than Great Britain, of which they think so poorly of, they must get rid of slavery. Which would make Jackson hypocritical if he does not reject slavery as he has already written about the abolition of slavery during the Revolution. Highlighting how talk of change has only been used for political gain and in private they still treat their own slaves like animals. Similar with using the argument of the Declaration of Independence which says all men not only white men. If it were all men in America he would make it illegal for a human to be property and for all to be able to be considered a citizen.

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When “We the People” is said it referred to America as a whole. It is the spirt of America that governs and works to keep it running. However, at a point it was not the entirety of the people that it recognized, nor was it really all men that were created equal under the eyes of the government. It did not include the women that were the ones in the background, the African Americans that were subjected to slavery and worked for the profit of the slave owners, nor the native Americans that had their land stolen from them. This did not keep them from fighting to not be over looked. Women demanded for their rights and were outspoken over their lack of power, African Americans fought oppression through free blacks creating essays and having perseverance to create their own success, and Natives fought to be seen through adopting constitutions and writing to congress to keep their lands. All to achieve an America in which it could be a place for everyone to have equal opportunity for success and growth.

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When discussing who was or wasn’t considered a citizen this black man considers how are they supposed to live in a society in which they are deemed a different species. It is discussed at length on how it is ironic that Jefferson spoke of slaves from other times spoke of their education but they were white so they had a different disposition. As well as how can white and black people be so different when they worship the same God and all serve under him. This provides  evidence as to how the nation at its core is hypocritical as if they claim to be better than others then why do they treat their own as animals and allow those in power to make excuses for it. So if they are to be considered citizens then they first need to be treated like human beings that have to prove a certain disposition.

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The author compares women’s oppression in similar terms with the slaves. Women are subservient to their masters and our stuck at home to serve the household or to serve their husbands pleasurable needs. Women although also white serve a second class citizens as their opinions are not valued nor do they enjoy the same station as their husband. God is used again to explore how if woman was created to be a companion to men then why, if not for the greed of men and their hypocritical standards, would women be placed underneath them. They should not be treated as second class citizens as they should be able to contribute more to society than being confined to the house.

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A common theme When trying to justify a persons place in society religion is often used. It is ironic when their religion teaches them to love they neighbor they would tear someone else away from God because they do not look like them. This goes to show how religious institutions and their lack of integrity when helping in force the social order. And their hypocrisy of spreading the love of God as a Church should, but only to the right people, old white men.

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Overall, it took the strength and petition of those overlooked and undervalued for modern America to get to where it was today. If Women in the past had not stood against the idea of a women’s place in society then she would have never been able to get to the point in which she could hold office as Vice President. If Natives of the past never documented the injustice then the true narrative would have never been able to be uncovered. Lastly if free African Americans had never taken their freedom and fought for those who couldn’t fight then it could have taken ever longer for the America of today to get to the point of Black Lives Matter. Although, in todays society nothing is perfect and there are still Americans who sadly have to fight to be apart of “We the people”, if those who were here before didn’t do what they did who knows where America would be today.

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The United States had said that they were going to protect the Cherokee and even signed a law that those who entered would be removed by the United States government. However, when this became inconvenient for the White people who wanted to move in onto their land and force them out they did so without any input from the people that they had agreed to protect. The Cherokee tried to prove that they were like the white males version of America and could love the same God. Which goes to show how when one group of people are growing a white person, allowed by our government, can take away and push aside the others to benefit their own greed. Similar to what most likely happened with the black settlements. If the United States was supposed to protect their people then why would they turn their backs on the Cherokee, if not to profit themselves and the real citizens of America, the white men.

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Jefferson notes on each way that black people are different in order to keep them in slavery and out of his own society. He tries to point out how they are almost a different race entirely to further create a divide between them to demonstrate white superiority. It is ironic as he helps create this nation to be one that provide an opportunity to all men then later provides evidence to why it should not be all men but only white men. This can be used to define a citizen in America as originally created in the image of those who wrote about it, the founding fathers, and not those who supported the nation in order to allow them to take on Britain. And it remained this way as the nation developed.

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Judith Murray argues for the equal opportunity of men and women, justifying that women and men have the same souls and potential for education and reason. She attempts to get the male reader to see that they are not different in principle under God and that women could enjoy learning just as much as men as to honor God with it. The irony in using religion as a justification is how the men often used it as a justification of the latter. They used it to push others beneath them and support the idea of white male superiority. This creates a common ground for understanding. As well as if it were really one nation under God then women under God should be partners in creating this nation and be given the opportunity to receive the education to do so.

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This letter reflects on how women at the time understood their oppression and if not recognized for this they were willing to take action and not continue to be subservient second class citizens. Women had been able to take a more active role in society during the Revolution but when it ended it seemed the push for women’s rights did as well. Abigail provides the perspective as a white citizen of America who is treated as if they were not citizens at all. Which can be used to point out the hypocrisy in early America as they had just fought to get away from a king who gave them laws to follow without any representation themselves, and now they do the same to their wives.