Values that are important to the people who live and work in the new nation were religion, freedom, and bravery. Religion was important in peoples lives because it gave them meaning to their life and someone or something to look up to. Wheatley explains in “On Being Brought from Africa,” the gratitude for Christian salvation. In the writing there was gratitude for slavery because it brought the people to Christianity. In both of Wheatley’s poems he expresses reverence for God. Freedom was one of the nations key ideals expressed and celebrated in “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Many people have died in order to preserve the freedom that it represents. We owe our freedom to this who dies in order that we might be free. Benjamin Franklin used
