Chapter 14 & 15 Equality

Overall I think I am fascinated with human rights and inequality. Due to being fascinated with human rights and inequality issues, moments in history where there is inequality, such as slavery, spark my interest more. To me it was really astonishing to read how serious they took slavery when the Fugitive Slave Act was enforced. Many slaves ran to the North (the non-slave states), in order to be free. They would be free for years and once the Act was enforced they would go on a man hunt for these free slaves to become slaves again. When reading this passage it really reminded me of this one episode I watched, Dog the Bounty Hunter, where they would go in searches to find a person who needs to be in jail. That is what exactly the slave catcher did. I really don’t understand how slavery would save the Union. Knowing that the North is composed of anti-slavery state I would assume they would put up a fight against the South to allow these slaves to continue to be free.

Chapter 15 has a little section on women’s rights and war, while reading through many chapters of Enduring Vision I noticed a trend with women’s rights and war. Whenever America goes to war, women fight for the rights in these particular situations. Such as during the American Revolution, while women helped aid men during war, women began to fight for rights, and Abigail Adams made this stand against her husband John Adams. Having previous knowledge about World War II, women began to do men’s jobs and after wanted more opportunities and jobs like the men, then too women fought for their equality. To me World War II seems like a repeat, of the Civil war. Women took the jobs that men could not due because of war. When this opportunity was given to the women once again they hope for equality in politics and economics. Once again they were not granted the equality they deserve. Well reading this passage and other passages it was surprising to see how during war it is like history was being repeated for women equality. To me equality is a big issue in America and still is today, although the Declaration of Independence and Constitutions encourage equality, they both were not specific enough to say who deserve equality, they were vague.