Nelson Mandela's life was dedicated to the struggle to free his people. Nelson Mandela was threatened with death and put in prison, but when he got out he embraced grace and forgiveness. In the fight against the party in South Africa, Mandela believed that violence was justified, he was arrested for treason and sentenced to life in prison, for twenty-seven years he was cut off from the world. In 1990 he was released, pardoning the peacemakers. Mandela led a new South Africa, a freedom fighter who became an icon around the world. Mandela himself fought and created a vision for others around the world. He was born in 1918 in South Africa, where black people 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 leader and hard worker. Mandela was the first in his family to go to school. At the age of 19, he was sent to study at a Methodist college and it was there that he was introduced to the African 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 strictly segregated, he remained in neighborhoods strictly reserved for blacks where there was a lot of poverty; He found work as a night watchman in the gold mines and saw first-hand the effects of a white-dominated country. When Mandela was 26, he married Eve Lynn, a nurse, and they had three children together, unlike most men in South Africa. Mandela was well educated and enrolled as a law student. Later he got a job as a lawyer through senior......in the middle of his studies...she got other opportunities while he was imprisoned and after two years in prison. liberation, they separated. Nelson became president and took over responsibility for actions to end all riots and bring peace to South Africa. Negotiations for free elections lasted 4 years but for the first time in April 1894, blacks went to the poles with whites and gave an equal vote. The result of this election was expected: the ANC would have won power and Nelson Mandela would be the new president of South Africa. Nelson Mandela fought his way through the struggle against segregation, apartheid and imprisonment to bring the people of South Africa and other countries around the world freedom as equal human beings. and he took this vision to his grave in 2013. Works Cited www.biography.com/.../nelson-mandelawww.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biographywww.history.com/topics/nelson-mandela