A Fight for Freedom from Two Perspectives

In more than one way, the ideals conveyed by Olaudah Equiano (An Interesting Narrative), Edmund Burke (Taxation No Tyranny) and Samuel Jackson (Speech on Conciliation with America) are aligned towards one major point: While America was busy fighting for freedom from their colonial masters, she herself was the worst master, and an oppressor of others. Basically, Edmund Burke gave his speech with the conviction that it was ideally possible to write and frame legislations that could put to an end the existing distrust among the American Colonialists; and essentially create some peace between Great Britain and The Colonies. In this, he implicitly directs that he was not searching for “anything but simple peace”, and he spoke “with good intentions and genuine simplicity of heart” (Burke, 2005).