KEEP YOUR HAND ON THE PLOW! HOLD ON!

Excerpt from Freedom's Plough

A long time ago,

An enslaved people heading toward freedom

Made up a song:

Keep Your Hand On The Plow! Hold On!

The plow plowed a new furrow

Across the field of history.

Into that furrow the freedom seed was dropped.

From that seed a tree grew, is growing, will ever grow.

That tree is for everybody,

For all America, for all the world.

May its branches spread and shelter grow

Until all races and all peoples know its shade.

KEEP YOUR HAND ON THE PLOW! HOLD ON!

Langston Hughes

Everybody needs freedom and it it probably the most important theme in life. Unfortunately some people had to struggle and fight for their freedom. Freedom is a extremely important thing when it comes life because without freedom you have to be controlled to do what people tell you to do even when you don't want to. In the 17-1800's slavery was a popular thing becouse the owners of the slaves, who pretty much had all the freedom they wanted, controlled the slaves as if they were property. Even from a early age slaves were forced to do what their masters wanted many ended up dying of exhaustion and disease. A quote from Langston's poem says, " An enslaved people heading toward freedom." This shows that when people are given no freedom, they fight for it because a person that does not have his or her own freedom basically does not have a life. During World War II Jews were givin no freedom because they were basically stripped of being human. Since they were "not humans" they were not free and were all sent to work to death or were just killed immediately. Freedom is the most iportant thing in the world and sadly many people aren't given freedom. But those people need to remember what the slaves in America sang, KEEP YOUR HAND ON THE PLOW! HOLD ON!