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Answer: Because they had been held to do work for so long and some of their owners starved them to death. They want freedom because they were tired of the life their owners want them to do!
Answer: They wanted freedom for the same reasons anyone wants freedom now; it is because it is ones God given right, and no man or woman has a right to take it away from another. They were human beings, and no human being prides themselves in being owned by someone else as if they were furniture or an animal. They wanted to be their own men and women.
What else can I help you with?
Why slaves do not want to be slaves?
They wanted to have freedom.
Why did the slaves want the underground railroad?
Slaves wanted their freedom. Many escaped to Canada.
Why did Sam Houston want freedom?
He wanted freedom for everyone except the slaves of course.
Why did the KKK want to resist reconstruction?
They did not want to share political and economic freedom with freed slaves.
Why is freedom important to the Americans?
because they didn't want to be slaves any more
Did general lee want slaves to fight?
Yes, Lee advocated training regiments of slaves and giving them their freedom at the end of the war.
What did both David walker and Henry garnet want slaves to do?
Revolt and fight for their freedom
What did both David walker and Henry. H want slaves to do?
Revolt and fight for their freedom
What important goal did Toussaint L'Ouverture want to achieve?
He achieved.... freedom for the slaves in saint Dominique
What did both David Walker and Henry H Garnet want slaves to do?
They wanted slaves to revolt and fight for their freedom.
How were the slaves freedom denied?
The slaves' freedom was denied by the concept that slaves were property, not human beings, and all human beings are free, but not property, so slaves were denied freedom due to the concept that slaves were property, not people.
Why did slaves enlist to fight in the civil war?
That's like asking why a dog would want off his/her leash...FREEDOM. Obviously slaves didn't want to be slaves and when they heard of the north fighting for their freedom they wanted to help as much as they possibly could. I mean if you were a slave and heard you could get freed wouldn't you do anything you could?
