Isaiah 61:1,2
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me, to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor…
to comfort all who mourn…
Born a house slave in Delaware in 1748,
Absalom Jones
purchased his wife’s
freedom and then
his own and went on to become an
Episcopal priest.
He died in 1818.
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