My concept of freedom after reading the history of slave

What is clear is that emancipation was a long process, a process that is still unfolding — not simply a day or a moment of celebration. The changes brought by emancipation took generations to reveal, and more than a century would pass before African Americans began to reap the full benefits of freedom. Owning the freedom, as I understand it, means embracing change. Many enslaved African Americans did not wait for freedom to come. Their struggle reminds us that change does not come without courage and loss.

Slavery and freedom are a common history and the actions of ordinary men and women, demanding freedom, transformed our nation. It is a shared story resting at the heart of political, economic, and cultural life. Personal knowledge of slavery and limitation creates both a means and an end to promoting freedom in oneself, which does not ignore desires but manages them.

 

The idea of ​​freedom can be difficult, it can summarize the contradiction between our consciousness and our conscience. The field where freedom has always been known, not as a problem, to be sure, but as a fact of everyday life, is the political realm. And even today, whether we know it or not, the action and politics, among all the capabilities and potentialities of human life, are the only things of which we could not even conceive without at least assuming that freedom exists.

 

Without freedom, political life would thus be meaningless. The line of politics is the politics of freedom, and the context of its experience is practical. This freedom, which we take for granted in all political theories, is the complete opposite of “inner freedom.” Freedom, as we say today, is conceived not as an inner tendency of man but as a feature of human existence in the world.