Title: Defining Freedom
Product review: Read in December, 2012reviewForty Acres and Maybe A Mule - Harriette Gillem RobinetHow does one define Freedom? That is the question that the characters in the book have asked each other. Gideon, an ex slave defines freedom as having his own land where people will respect you. Nelly defines freedom by pointing to her heart. Pascal is still searching what freedom means to him.This story takes place in Georgia during the Reconstruction period. All ex slaves and poor whites were granted forty acres and a mule. In the South the plantation owners recoiled at the mere fact that their "property" actually were being treated like a citizen and were aiming to put a stop to this. Many of the southern men started groups such as the "Klu Klux Klan" to intimediate the ex slaves into going back to their former owners, burning their towns, and farms. So the question comes back to the character or maybe to the reader. How does one define Freedom?
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