o Douglass at least once (Douglass, p. 329). This idea of oppression regarding economic gain and freedom was in a sense greatly varied in respect to Jefferson's case. Thomas Jefferson and other colonists did have the right to obtain a wealth, or to create a steady weekly or monthly income. Oppression to the colonists in form of monetary value came about against them in the form of heavy taxes and outside trading. Stamp tax, paper tax, sugar tax and tea tax were among the many that the colonists were faced with every growing day. Trading among nations is a central part of any economic growth, to specialize and sell in mass quantity of goods, such as fishing, farming and manufacturing goods coming out of a country adds to the money already present in the colonies. King George restricted this fundamental right restricted to trading within English borders, hampering their economic freedom in which they could only sell when England demanded (Dec. Of Independence, p. 46). Oppression, in this case, limited every individual in some sense to meager or su
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