Tag: anti-slavery

(Copyright) by Eddie Hyatt (Tulsa, Oklahoma)  In 18th century Colonial America, a great spiritual awakening ignited an anti-slavery movement that impacted millions, including America’s Founding Fathers. This resulted in America’s founding documents being formulated as statements against slavery. This anti-slavery characteristic of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution was understood by America’s founding generation. This has also been understood by abolitionists and Civil Rights icons such as Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King, for example, in his “I Have a Dream Speech,” exhorted America, not to dispense with her founding documents, but instead, to live up […]