Johannes Hahnner Called America A Free Country
Johannes Hanner called America a “free country” because it really was in his mind. In European point of view at the time, land meant freedom. You don’t have liberty until you owned some private property. As an emigrant from Germany, Johannes understood how hard life was if you didn’t own land or inherit it from your father or grandfather. Many different kinds of taxes like titles was required to support a local landlord. What are you going to survive in the society that you are being taxed for almost everything you do? In America, one can do whatever one wants without being taxed. For Johannes, nothing was better than that and he wasn’t reluctant to show how so excited he was in his letter to the families who were still living in Germany.