Name Course Professor Date Freedom theme In American Literature In American Literature, many values are given focus. From Hope to Individuality, to even Diversity. But there is one value, one ideal that not only founded this country but lay at the very heart of all things that make America great. An ideal this country was founded on that invades every aspect of American Literature. That ideal is freedom, freedom from bondage, from oppression, and from those who seek to subdue you. From Thomas Jefferson to Fredrick Douglass and on to Harriet Beecher Stowe, the themes of Freedom ring throughout the American ideal’s writings, telling the reader to fight for that freedom and become free from all those who would deny