Nelson Mandela's Way to Freedom

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Nelson Mandela life was dedicated to the struggle to set his people free. Nelson Mandela was threatened with death and put in jail but when he came out he embraced grace and forgiveness. In the fight against the partied was in South Africa Mandela felt violence was justified, he was arrested on a charged with treason and sentenced to life in jail, for twenty seven years he was cut off from the world. In nineteen ninety he was set free, forgiving he appeasers Mandela led a new South Africa who was a freedom fighter who become a icon all across the world. Mandela`s own fight and made a vision for others across the word, he was born in 1918 in South Africa were black people were oppressed by a white minority.

Raised in a large family by the age of nine after his father died Mandela went to go live with his uncle a tribe leader, a hard worker Mandela was the first in his family to attend school. When he was 19 years old he was sent to study at a Methodist college and was there when he was introduced to Africa National Congress (A.N.C) the party that was fighting for black South Africans.

Mandela’s family expected Nelson to take on responsibilities of a tribe leader but Nelson had other plans, he ran away and it took for the first time him to the city Johannesburg. The city was strictly segregated he stayed in sections strictly for black people where there was a lot of poverty; he found a job working as a night watchmen in the gold mines there he saw firsthand the effect of a country dominated by whites.

When Mandela was 26 he married Eve Lynn who was a nurse they had three children together, unlike most men in South Africa Mandela was well educated and enrolled as a law student later got a job as a legal clerk through senior...

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...t she had other occasions while he was imprisoned and after two years of his release they separated.

Nelson became the President and resumed responsibility on the actions to end all riots and bring peace again to South Africa, the negotiations for free elections took 4 years but for the first time in April 1894 blacks went to the poles with whites and was giving an equal vote. The outcome of that election was expected the A.N.C won power and Nelson Mandela was the new president of South Africa

Nelson Mandela fought his way through the struggle of segregation, Apartheid and imprisonment to bring people of South Africa and others around the world freedom as equal human beings and he took this vision to his grave in 2013.

Works Cited

www.biography.com/.../nelson-mandela

www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biography

www.history.com/topics/nelson-mandela

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