What I Learned from EOTO:

In our freedom class on Monday, half of the class, including myself, presented a mock trial of the case, "State v Mann", while the other have taught the class about a subject they had researched. It was very interesting to me to see how all these ideas they talked about all related to the same issue: slavery. 

One subject I found very interesting was the Amistad Mutiny. I had never learned or even heard of this topic before so I was very interested. This topic has to deal with slavery, but it includes slavery in Cuba. To sum up the Amistad Mutiny, it was the kidnapping of African slaves by a Spanish ship. An American ship captured the Spanish ship and they went on trial. At first the court decided for the slaves to be sent back to their "home" of Cuba, but shortly after another trial occurred stating that the selling of slaves from Africa in Cuba was illegal and they should be tried for kidnapping. Most of the kidnapped slaves survived and got sent back to Africa. I thought this was a very interesting topic because it also contained the Spanish instead of just America. This story shows how slavery was everywhere in the world at one point. 

Another thing I found interesting was the story of Nat Turner. Nat Turner was a slave himself and actually became a pastor while he was still enslaved. He was also one of those noble people who helped free slaves because of his position in society. While on this journey of helping others escape, Nat Turner ended up killing the Travis family to secure weapons and other materials they needed to then murder other white people for owning slaves. I believe he could've executed his rebellion against slavery better if he was so passionate about then equality of all people. He later got tried for murder and was sentenced to death.