How Did Christopher Columbus Definition Of Freedom

The word freedom can be defined in many different ways and according to different people, it might to all mean the same. During the time of the discovery of the New World, the place seemed like a new opportunity, a new beginning for many people as they went there with the hope of succeeding, but finding success and opportunities wasn’t the only things the European’s had done. Freedom at the time definitely wasn’t equal with everyone despite what the people say, and some may say it still isn’t to this everyday.
When Christopher Columbus first set sail in 1492, he is forever remembered in history as the man who ‘discovered’ the New World and is to be praised for that. But, he was a slave trader, which, in cold blood, took men and women away

from their families in order to make people forget his failure to find a new trading route to Asia. He also by bringing many settlers, brought many unknown diseases like the smallpox that the natives never seen before and because of that many were died. As there was no legal government to oust explorers such as Christopher Columbus off their land, because the Natives never had the idea of owning something until the Europeans came by, they just assumed they would be the legal owners.By that, he destroyed many native tribes. Just like that he took away all the freedom’s that the native tribes had and used their kindness as his advantage to take control over them. At that time of age, Columbus didn’t see them as human beings and definitely granted no freedom to the natives. The limited range of vision by which Columbus were surrounded by at the time allowed him to think that his way of freedom is to claim everything and do whatever he wanted.
After years of labor work by the Native Americans, the Europeans replaced them with Africans and also didn’t consider them as human just because of the color of their skin. The Triangle Trade first started to develop as people traded goods for black people as they were considered less than a item. Even if the people survived the terrifying journey to the New World, when they got there it was continues hell for them. Most of them had to work in big plantations and farms in which they hardly get any time to rest. Although in the North raising wheat and corn did not require as much labor as raising tobacco or rice in the South, they both had slaves and owned them like it was nothing. During the 1700s, plantation owners and other colonists would subject hundreds of thousands of Africans to a life of intense labor and cruelty in North America. Freedom at the time for the blacks was defined as needing to find a voice for themselves and wanting to stand up for themselves which later on develops in a civil war.
Aside from the cruel history of painful search for freedom, another sign of freedom came from the great awakening in the 18th hundreds.

What the great awakening was was basically a movement of religious revival and spiritual enlargement. Many people at the time felt that they were restricted by the idea that they can only practice 1 type of religion. Not everyone agreed on the same thing and many were left thinking about what they believed in. As the number kept on growing, the great awakening happened as it was the first major event that all 3 colonies could share, helping to break down differences between them for example their religious believes and their spiritual lives. We can see from the great awakening that the religious spirit of the colonists was a important event to the drive for freedom. It was also the beginning of the break down of the 3 colonies as they were more accepting for each other and built great relationships in order to fit together and work as a country, eventually leading to the American Revolution. The definition of freedom at the time really suits the words of Thomas Jefferson as he said, ‘all men are created equal’, as the people of the colonies realized that everyone’s got a choice, and that people wanted something to

change.
In conclusion the definition of freedom was that people wanted to take control of their own lives and not be disrupted by others. No one should be slaves of other, no one should be owned by others, and no one should be treated different by others as everyone was born the same. In the end, this was still a really had concept to swallow at the time as we should take into account the practical restrictions under which they had to operate in, and the limited range of vision they had about the world around them.