Nat Turner: A Progressive Person's Story

."..For liberty, and justices for all." That is the final line in the Pledge of Allegiance. It states in a few words, that when you live in the United States of America, an individual receives full rights given by the Constitution. Would you believe that in a certain time period of American History that not everyone received the same liberty and rights to justice? Yes, it is true. In fact, for the first 160 years of this nation's existence, certain people at certain times did not received the full rights the Constitution guarantees. Eventually, with the help of a certain "class" of people, "the progressives" (people who try to change society and ways of life for the better), all people of the United States could enjoy the full rights guaranteed and promised to them. An example of an early...