Tim Barton

and william says you're right well well then you're free and literally on the spot says you are free please continue to fight with me and and prince fights for the rest of the revolution um when the revolution is over he gets the official certificate that he gets his freedom uh william closes the family slave trade business so you have a kid who grows up in a family business where they are slave traders he becomes an abolitionist freezes slaves stops the slave trade for the family and again like you start reading these stories and you're like

Not only are these guys a lot different than we realize, they're so much more honorable.

One of my favorite stories, Thomas Nelson Jr.

was a signer of the Declaration from Virginia.

He and George Washington were really good friends.

And there's actually some really fun letters from George Washington to Thomas Nelson Jr.

about how God's hand was all over

what they were doing in the American Revolution.

God showed up time and time again to save the military.

But Thomas Nelson Jr.

is a commanding officer at Yorktown, the last major battle of the Revolution.

And Thomas Nelson Jr.

was also a very wealthy guy, but he used all of his wealth to fund the military and the endeavors of what the Continental Congress was trying to do.

So he gave it all for the cause of liberty.

But because he's a wealthy guy, he was in Yorktown.

He leaves Yorktown to be part of the military.

The British have taken over Yorktown and he had the nicest house in Yorktown.

So the officers make that the place where they're going to stay.

And as the men surround Yorktown, the Continental Army, Yorktown is under siege.

He's with an artillery unit and they're firing cannonballs into Yorktown and they're driving the British back and he realizes