Newly Emancipated Person

     If I were a newly emancipated person of the United States first, I would be enlighten with so much joy to know that my children will have the luxury  of being born a free person and not into slavery. I will have finally become able to lead my own individual life, decide the future for my family, and set forth the effort in doing so, well at lease this is what I think sounds good and hope for while at the same time experiencing a since of being afraid but,I don't know where to begin my new profound journey. This is not the case, I will face a hand full of issues. The time setting is about around the time of the Civil War. Becoming free is good but, there isn't any jobs that will even consider hiring me but, guess where, on the very plantation that I was just freed from. I would have to more than likely travel north to find work as a maid or a factory worker that's if they will allow a woman to work for their company, but, now the problem that occurs is that now that
I've been emancipated I don't have any money or assets because, while I was enslaved I was forced to provide free labor so, how will I even be able to afford to relocate to the north. Well with the Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation within public places, I have to fear and also be careful not to make the wrong decisions that will otherwise cause me to receive a beating, getting lynched, or even rapped. Not to mention not having an education, even if someone was willing to hire me I don't know if I'm going to receive the pay that is owed to me because I can't read, write, or count. My greatest concern would be education and segregation because without an education what is to be expected of me in this world, who wants to hire me? no one and if  I do get a job the employer can just about pay or tell me anything and I have to accept  it because I'm ignorant the employer can pay me any amount they want because I do not have the rights that whites have in the United States, and to top it off I can't count. Segregation is a concern because not only will I experience segregation because I'm black but also because I'm a woman, I don't want to have to walk on pins and needles in order not to get beaten or killed. I would get involved with black nationalism, because I'm joining a fight that will one day if not for me but my off springs will one day have the same rights as whites and rights should be equal to every citizen. This movement helps to create a form of blacks uniting, giving us a form of ethnic pride. I would support the labor movement do to the fact that we are advocating to improve the conditions of organized labor through labor unions. The Tuskegee Institute is a excellent cause to support because it allows our black people to receive a higher education which is a must so that one day blacks will become compatible in the world , so yes I would involve myself. I also would support the Niagara Movement because these group of men consisting of: W.E.B. Du Bois, William M. Troller, John Hope, and Fredrick L. McGhee who are highly intelligent are fighting to make life and the world a better place for blacks, arguing concerns of racial discrimination, civil liberties, and the most important , recognition of black brotherhood, which is important for black families so that black man can lead their household.