Besides all the other growing issues from 1700-1800 in American History, there was one rising above all. The enslavement of the African people. While there was much debate about freedom, abolition, and all other things some African-Americans managed to find theirs. From 1775 to 1830 many African-Americans gained freedom by escaping to regions in which slavery wasn’t practiced or by purchasing it if granted while all at the same time the expansion of slavery greatly expanded in the American south. Free or enslaved, African-American were under constant oppression and were driven to take action towards the challenges they were faced with. While some looked to religion to escape these hardships, others looked to violence in which they believed was the ultimate solution. Freedom was the only means of escape, but even after that African-Americans were still targets. Freedom was often most acquired in the North. Document C shows a 1790 and 1830 map of the slave population in United States. While slavery was evidently decreasing in the North, it was rapidly expanding in the South. If slaves didn’t escape to the North however, they purchased their freedom. In Document F, Venture Smith was granted the permission to purchase his freedom an opportunity that was rarely given and although it took even more work in about 2 years he was able to pay it off. Document I goes on to show 2 African-American accounts of life after freedom in the city of Boston. The author(s) can still feel the oppression and abuse not much different from when enslaved. Their fearful as well as disgusted at the way they are portrayed in society. Religion was a means of escape as well as motivator, from when it all became too much to bear. Document D displays an image of a Negro Methodist Meeting, which we can see them falling to their knees and calling out. However in Document G their faith