The Myth of the American Outlaw

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The myth of American Outlaw
Reform associations proliferated in the United States of America in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries. These reforms addressed various issues such as abolition of slavery, reform of vegetarianism, phonetic spelling and seamen. The social protests often seemed to be outbursts that were short lived which were mounted by loosely groups that were connected and regionally rooted while emphasizing on demands that were local (King & Haveman 497). However, after a period of time, social protests became sustained, organized formerly, transcended into the neighborhoods and based their target at a distant. Their existed several social movements in America such as the antislavery societies, women’s rights association and temperate unions whose initiative was to forge extensive unions that resulted to the development of nationwide network of reformers , thus resulting to establishment of routines that were flexible and helped in facilitating sustained protest and mobilization. The most influential social movement was the one titled anti-slavery movement which was triggered by the development of media.
Antislavery in America
In the years between 1740 to 1840, antislavery movement became modernized due to its spread among the young nations commencing from Maine to North Carolina to Massachusetts and finally to Ohio. It developed as a contentious repertoire of acts such as publications, protests and petitions that were used in different locations by reformers. This movement like any other needed some resources both tangible and intangible. This included resources such as, infrastructure funding, human resource, expertise, publicity and the organizing templates (King & Haveman 501) .In order to acquire these resources the movement had to rely on established social institutions and communication networks that were always viewed as powerful communication networks. The ant slavery movement was not viewed as an outlaw because it collaborated with various organizations such as educational institutions, churches, professional associations which helped via providing important resources to support this movement. For example, many of the churches were in support of the abolitionist movement. It was believed that the original abolitionists were the reformed Presbyterians where as the Quakers had united against slave trade despite their national organizations ruling. Some preachers of this church preached against slavery thus passing important information to a wider society.
According to Guasco, by the end of the 1814 summer, Edward Coles had already anticipated the termination of his term as a private secretary of President James Madison’s and had started contemplating about his future career (17). He committed himself by liberating the enslaved women and men that he had inherited six years earlier from his father and was ready to consider options that would enable him to pursue his convictions. In his life, he desired to be a resident of Virginia, a state that had discouraged slavery. He also pointed out that, by him promoting abolition of slave trade in Virginia, he would accomplish his goals and objectives though the limitations he had, was lack of adequate skills to enable him succeed on his own. In his letter to his mentor and friend Thomas Jefferson, he asked for support from him in order to overcome the slavery trade that was going on in America. However, Coles feared to appear arrogant via calling the retired president attention on the persisted slavery in his country, an institution that was well known by Jefferson to be repulsive to the revolution principles of having free institutions. Cole declared that, it’s only the father of freedom that would enable the mobilization of the support that was urgently needed to be put into practice with complete principles contained in the Declarations that were renowned. However, this antislavery movement was faced with violence as evidenced by the British operations in the region of Chesapeake in the summer of 1814, thus triggering a resurrection of assault reports though Coles remained unconcerned (Guasco 18). Even before Jefferson could respond to the letter he had received from Cole, the British had already stormed the nation’s capital thus forcing Madison to run away and hide himself in the country of Maryland as the enemies burned the president’s house and the capital.
The abolition of slavery legally, has often been viewed as a narrative endpoint. This lead to the impression that subsequently helped in the fundamental departure of status quo, which consisted of very complex and enduring issues. For example, in the colonial period, the legal elimination of slave trade led to coming up of various opportunities and options (Quirk 529). However, freedom remained surrounded by various things such as the vested interests, economic imperatives and social hierarchies. In particular, colonial Africa slavery was viewed as slow death over decades of years. Moves taken by various individuals to confront slavery by indigenous people were often compromised by the use of forced labor. These contests have resulted historically and have initiated the comparisons that exist to contemporary problems. On one side of the triangle, we have the ideological and legacies of enslavement patterns and servitude that can be linked to all the collective forms of intergenerational deprivation racism and discrimination. The other side of view is that, the tribulations that face millions of individual human beings can be as a result of contemporary form of slavery including bonded labor and human trafficking. Individuals, who have the privilege of escaping from slavery, always come across various challenges in their lives. Thus, these bring a divide between the effective emancipation of slavery and legal...