Laura asks…What's the difference between freedom and liberty?Nancy answers:They both have a very similar meaning now because they probably both arose from the same original use.
Slavery is, of course, a very old tradition and one upon which most Greek city-states and the Roman Empire were essentially built upon. In Latin, the word that gave rise to 'liberty' was used to distinguish a free man from a slave. And in turn it developed other connotations associated with the freedom - liberal
