Where Is Freedom?

For school I am studying American History and I have reached the Civil War. I am reading about the cruelty of slavery and the horrors. But I am also reading about the men and woman who stood up and made a stand for a moral wrong. Slave and free, white and black stood next to each other and fought against the evils of slavery.

What has happened to that generation? Yes that was in the 1800s and we are now in the 21st century, but a wrong is wrong. We still aren't free, America. What about human trafficking? Did you know today, there are more people held in slavery than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade? And that more than 14,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year?*

As I read about the slavery in the 1800s, I fool myself into thinking: "If I was there during that time, I'd do something to stop it!" Would I? Human Trafficking: Modern-Day Slavery is going on today. People like Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Beecher Stowe and many, many others fought for freedom and justice. What about now? We still aren't free!!

“These people are being held in captivity, in some cases in chains… A couple of workers literally forcibly busted out of a truck in which they were held against their will. So, the norm there is a disaster, and the extreme is slavery. And this is taking place in the United States of America.” – Senator Bernie Sanders

And what about the innocent children being murdered through abortion? They aren't free. They can't make choices: but if they could I'm sure they would choose to live. I'm not saying give an unborn baby the right to vote! I'm saying that wrong is wrong! And people need to still stand up and fight for what is right! We are America! The Land of the Free! But are we? To God alone be the glory!

*Information from http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/ and

http://www.polarisproject.org/