The Importance Of Freedom In The United States

Freedom is being in the position of not being enslaved or imprisoned. It is the power to act, speak, or think whatever without restraint or impediment. Some people are born into freedom and never have to bare the struggles that most others go through to gain it. Many countries didn’t start off free and most of them aren’t still. The residents of multiple countries escape their homeland and move to other places for freedom and the knowledge that they are safer there than back at home. Freedom is never given, it is demanded and fought for. Benjamin Banneker and Martin Luther King Jr. demanded freedom in America, the Obamas pushed for freedom for young girls around the world, and Ahdaf Souief united with her peers and peacefully fought for freedom in Cairo.
Many people in America disagreed with this, creating slavery. Slavery wasn’t fully approved by all states. Most of the South was pro-slavery and most of the North was anti-slavery.. Benjamin Banneker was a civilian in the South. He disagreed with Slavery due to being a slave himself. Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1791 about the issues of slavery and that Jefferson was a hypocrite for disagreeing with slavery but allowing it to continue. In the section of his letter titled “They Sought To Maintain Control Over You”, Banneker is trying to make Jefferson relate to the slaves by discussing the time when Britain tried to gain control of America. Jefferson saw the horrors of slavery and recalled the Declaration. The nation remained divided and slavery still existed. Eighty years after the signing of the Declaration, Abraham Lincoln recited the Gettysburg Address which united the nation and decreased slavery by a lot. Things were still bad for minorities. One hundred years after the Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech at Lincoln Memorial. He starts the speech