free love

Examples of free love in the following topics:

• The Sexual Revolution

  • Similarly, during this time, a culture of "free love" emerged.
  • Beginning in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, this culture of "free love" was propagated by thousands of hippies who preached the power of love and the beauty of sex.
  • Hippies embraced the old slogan of free love from the radical social reformers of other eras.
  • For a heterosexual couple using the Pill, intercourse became purely an expression of love, a means of physical pleasure, or both—but it no longer had to be a means of reproduction.

• Youth Culture and Delinquency

  • Youth culture during the 1960s counterculture was characterized by the Summer of Love and the casual use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs.
  • The Summer of Love became a defining moment in the 1960s as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.
  • San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution; during the Summer of Love, it became a melting pot of music, psychedelic drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, new forms of dress, and politics.
  • These lifestyles included communal living, the free and communal sharing of resources (often among total strangers), and the idea of free love.
  • When people returned home from the Summer of Love, these styles and behaviors spread quickly from San Francisco and Berkeley to many U.S., Canadian, and even European cities.

• Slave Families

  • A black man, they reasoned, who loved his wife and his children was less likely to be rebellious or to run away than would a 'single' slave."
  • “While the form of family life in the quarters differed radically from that among free Negroes and whites, this does not mean it failed to perform many of the traditional functions of the family—the rearing of children being one of the most important of these functions.
  • Blassingame concludes, "In [the slave father's] family, the slave not only learned how to avoid the blows of the master, but also drew on the love and sympathy of its members to raise his spirits.

• Counterculture

  • The counterculture reached its peak in the 1967 "Summer of Love," when thousands of young people flocked to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
  • The counterculture lifestyle integrated many of the ideals of the time, including peace, love, harmony, music, and mysticism.
  • To some Americans, the movement reflected American ideals of free speech, equality, world peace, and the pursuit of happiness.

• Populism and Religion

  • In his three presidential bids, he promoted Free Silver in 1896, anti-imperialism in 1900, and trust-busting in 1908, calling on Democrats to fight the trusts (big corporations) and big banks, and embrace anti-elitist ideals of republicanism.
  • If this is the law of our development then, if there is any logic that can bind the human mind, we shall turn backward to the beast in proportion as we substitute the law of love.
  • I choose to believe that love rather than hatred is the law of development. " Bryan threw himself into the work of the Social Gospel.

• The Effects of Watergate

  • On September 8, 1974, President Ford granted Nixon a "free, full, and absolute pardon. " Nixon released a statement, expressing regret:
  • No words can describe the depth of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency, a nation I so deeply love, and an institution I so greatly respect.

• Forming a Slave Community

  • In his book, Blassingme corrects common misconceptions about slavery, arguing that slaves had personal agency, actively developed a cultural identity, and performed meaningful activities in their free time and space.
  • "Antebellum black slaves created several unique cultural forms which lightened their burden of oppression, promoted group solidarity, provided ways for verbalizing aggression, sustaining hope, building self-esteem, and often represented areas of life largely free from the control of whites. "
  • A black man, they reasoned, who loved his wife and his children was less likely to be rebellious or to run away than would a 'single' slave. " Slave parents often attempted to shield infants and young children from the brutality of the plantation.
  • "While the form of family life in the quarters differed radically from that among free Negroes and whites, this does not mean it failed to perform many of the traditional functions of the family—the rearing of children being one of the most important of these functions.

• The Changed Role of Women

  • Republicanism also affected a wife’s relationship with her husband, with virtues such as love and affection becoming more essential to the ideal marital relationship than obedience and subservience.
  • Most free African Americans in northern urban centers were employed in “service trades” such as cooking and catering, cleaning stables, cutting hair, or driving coaches.
  • Additionally, many employers in the North refused to house whole families of free African Americans, preferring only to board domestic laborers, who tended to be women.

• Settling New England

  • Free, public education was soon established, a printing press appeared in Cambridge in 1639, and Harvard University was established in the same city in 1650.
  • Williams was loved by the Indians; he lodged with them, learned their language, and respected them.

• John Randolph and the Old Republicans

  • He summarized Old Republican principles as the following: "love of peace, hatred of offensive war, jealousy of the state governments toward the general government, a dread of standing armies, a loathing of public debts, taxes, and excises; tenderness for the liberty of the citizen; jealousy, Argus-eyed jealousy of the patronage of the President."
  • With mixed feelings about slavery, he was one of the founders of the American Colonization Society in 1816, which aimed to send free blacks to a colony in Africa.