Based on your reading, how does the text Twelve Years A Slave contradict the paternalistic view that slaves were satisfied in their condition of slavery? 

Based on your reading of the text, what is Solomon Northrop’s understanding or view of liberty? Next, how did his view of liberty challenge the traditional view held by proponents of slavery that slavery was simply a physical matter? Also, how does your understanding of freedom or liberty compare to Solomon Northrop’s understanding of freedom or liberty?

Compare the personal view of liberty of Solomon Northrop, and his testimony of how other slaves viewed liberty, with the view of liberty held by Levi Preston, a Minuteman from Danvers, Massachusetts. Preston expressed his view of liberty at the end of the American Revolution. According to Preston when asked about why he had supported the American Revolution, “what we meant in going for those redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves, and we always meant to. They didn’t mean we should.”