Nelson Mandela's life was dedicated to the fight to free his people. Nelson Mandela was threatened with death and put in prison but when he came out he embraced grace and forgiveness. In the fight against the party in South Africa Mandela considered the violence justified, he was arrested on charges of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment, for twenty-seven years he was cut off from the world. In 1990 he was released, pardoning his appeasements. Mandela led a new South Africa that was a freedom fighter who became an icon throughout the world. Mandela's struggle and creating a vision for others around the world. He was born in 1918 in South Africa, where blacks were oppressed by a white minority. Raised in a large family at the age of nine, after the death of his father Mandela went to live with his uncle, a tribal chief, a hard worker Mandela was the first in his family to attend school. When he was 19 he was sent to study at a Methodist college and it was there when he was introduced to the Africa National Congress (ANC), the party that fought for black South Africans. Mandela's family expected Nelson to take on the responsibilities of a tribe. leader but Nelson had other plans, he ran away and took him to the city of Johannesburg for the first time. The city was severely segregated and he stayed in neighborhoods reserved exclusively for blacks where there was a lot of poverty; he found work as a night watchman in the gold mines and there he saw firsthand the effects of a white-dominated country. When Mandela was 26 he married Eve Lynn, who was a nurse, they had three children together, unlike most men in South Africa. Mandela was well educated and enrolled as a law student, later got a job as a law clerk through senior...... middle of paper......t had other opportunities while in prison and after two years of His After the liberation they separated. Nelson became president and took back responsibility for the actions to put an end to all the riots and bring peace to South Africa, the negotiations for free elections lasted 4 years but for the first time in April 1894 the blacks went to the poles with the whites and gave an equal vote. The outcome of those elections was expected: the ANC won power and Nelson Mandela became the new president of South Africa. Nelson Mandela fought his way through segregation, apartheid and imprisonment to bring the people of South Africa and others around the world freedom as equal human beings. and took this vision to the grave in 2013.Works Citedwww.biography.com/.../nelson-mandelawww.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biographywww.history.com/topics/nelson-mandela