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On January 1, 1863, United States president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, announcing an end to slavery.
Three years later, with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Lincoln’s proclamation became the law of the land. All the slaves were legally set free. However, for many of those who had been in bondage, their experience did not completely match their legal status. Many Blacks in the South were still treated like slaves by the more powerful white people. They were kept out of work, threatened and abused, and some were even put to death. Some were told that the law didn’t apply to them and so were tricked back into servitude. Thus, for many, the proclamation of freedom had little to no effect on their lives.
This bit of history can help us understand how we as believers can be declared by God to be set free from slavery to sin and…
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