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Free and Not Free Solomon was a free slave. He encountered the beauty of “freedom”, which is described as having an economical and social life with total liberty. Even though free black people at that time (in the 19th century), really weren’t able to follow a stable life of liberty and justice, they were still better off being pretentiously “free” than to be tormented every day, being slaves. Solomon understood the meaning being a …

…of life from a person. Freedom more likely signifies the total opposite, and that is being independent from any oppressing power, and having the opportunity of succeeding in life. For the people who have been selling free or not free black people into slavery, as Solomon said, it wasn’t their total fault for doing these crimes, because it was the society in which these slaveholders lived in, that they held the influence of slaveholding.