Definition of freedom: how do you define it? What are its principal features?

History by Geoffrey
  1. Definition of freedom: how do you define it? What are its principal features?
  2. Description of which people (or groups) were free and which were not free in the US before the Civil War, and the criteria you used to say so.
  3. A discussion of why so many white Americans in the southern states were willing to fight a war to protect slavery. What was a stake for them?