The Land of the Free and the not so Free to Some

America is portrayed to be the 'land of the free', yet before and even after Francis Scott Key wrote 'The Star Spangled Banner' in 1814 American's have not shown to be the righteous residents of this beautiful land the way Francis Scott Key would have wanted us to be. Instead, we (the white Americans) have humiliated, violated, run-out and murdered those that are not exactly like we are. In the following paper, three brilliant authors will be discussed. One being a woman, who, after the Revolution, returned to England where she acted, wrote many novels and married before forever being remembered for her greatest novel, Charlotte Temple. Another author being a man that went through more than we could possibly know. His father was a gentleman of diverse race, part Pequot and part white; his mother was most likely a slave, quite possibly part African American. …