Source: Huffington Post | Lisa Sharon Harper
In 1853, no one could have imagined that the end of slavery in the United States was just 10 years away. Since the 1660s, race-based slavery had upheld the economic base of both the northern and southern colonies and subsequently the United States. The South's agricultural way of life had been made possible and sustained through the backbreaking labor of millions of people who worked in their fields for free.
But people of faith rose up and said, "No!" They marched. They sang. They held revival meetings. And they fasted.