For several seconds, neither of them moved. Then William sat down the trunk and crossed the room, standing close but not touching. The learned caution…
No recognition passed between them in any way an observer might notice. just a servant glancing at his master, awaiting instructions. But in that fraction…
The sling served a purpose that went beyond mere costume. Ellen had been deliberately kept from learning to read or write, a common practice designed…
He looked at me, his eyes wide, and then he did something that stole the breath from my lungs. He bowed. It was a quick,…
The warmth that flooded my being was unlike any physical sensation I had ever known. It was not the heat of a fever which burns…

They told me I would die in that cell. A quiet anonymous death. The sentence wasn’t just from the Iranian regime. It was from biology…
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UNTIL GOD SENT AN UNEXPECTED RESCUE – Part 9
William and Ellen became sought-after speakers on the abolitionist lecture circuit, but their testimony was different from others who had escaped bondage. They didn’t just…
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UNTIL GOD SENT AN UNEXPECTED RESCUE – Part 8
Patterson’s knock on the door was soft but insistent, pulling Ellen and William from the shallow, anxious sleep they had finally fallen into. Neither had…
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UNTIL GOD SENT AN UNEXPECTED RESCUE – Part 7
“Somewhere in the city, the woman from the platform might still be thinking about the servant who looked so much like her brother’s Ned. Somewhere,…
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UNTIL GOD SENT AN UNEXPECTED RESCUE – Part 6
Inside, Ellen closed the door and leaned against it, eyes shut, the cane slipping from her hand to clatter on the floor. For several seconds,…





