Freedom is not something served on a platter. It requires a great physical and mental struggle. Nations have to strive hard and struggle for a long time in order to get it. There are wars, debates, revolution and bloodshed that …show more content…
Freneau was born in America. His father was a native to America and his mother was from Scotland. He was raised in New Jersey and studied from William Tennent. Freneau graduated from Princeton in 1771. After graduation he first tried teaching but didn’t continued it. After two years of studying theology he quitted that as well. In 1775, war of revolution started, he wrote poems that were against the British rule. In the midst, he left America but came back to join the patriotic movement. Due to his writings he was arrested by the British army and they kept him in prison on a ship for about six weeks. He was nearly killed in this movement. His writings won him the title of ‘The Poet of the American