The theme of freedom plays such an important role it is because during their time, freedom has been the mere thought of the people because of factors that leads people in this era has been mistreated and has experience being treated unfairly because of the laws and beliefs that has been implemented. Different poems had shown different angles and some had not pointed out the real issue where it makes the real story being twisted.
As we probably am aware Harlem Renaissance was a development in the 1920's and 1930's amid which there was a blast of African-American workmanship and writing. Amid this time servitude and racial isolation were all the while being seen. ballads by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and others alike, drove the message home that these indecencies should be annulled.