for freedom, the people stole away into the woods for sings and chants to express their true nature.
Amazing blacks such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman expressed the drive for freedom by rising up and exercising intelligence and action in the face of oppression (Greene, 1988, p.89). Such driven leaders were not satisfied with freedom only for themselves. They wanted and knew they deserved freedom for an entire people. Harriet Tubman is said to have threatened to shoot a slave she was walking to freedom, when he became tired and wanted to turn back. He kept walking. Frederick Douglass, like Greene, believed that freedom comes only from continued resistance. His life and that of Tubman attest to that fact.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was still resisting one hundred years later, as the black person in America continued to be oppressed, even after winning freedom from slavery. Through the Civil Rights movement he protested, resisted, fasted, and was jailed numerous times in order to right the wrongs of economic and social oppression of the b
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