What does freedom mean to you? To most people freedom is part of their everyday lives, it is the knowing that you can go out to public places and not be threatened. The basic rights that we take for granted today, like for example freedom of speech and the right to bare arms, were merely dreams to the freed slaves of 1865. Although they were considered free by the national government, ex-slaves were not free, they …showed first 75 words of 574 total…

…showed last 75 words of 574 total…the way they are treated, are they not still human beings? White slave owners were able to rape their female slaves over and over again and nothing happened to them, however if a black man were to rape a white woman he would have been hung. This is America, we are supposed to be “one nation under God...with liberty and justice for all,” how does that work when people are terrorized for being different.