They Call Me Abolitionist
John G. Fee founded Berea College on the principle that everyone deserved an education. That doesn’t sound to crazy but it was in the mid 1800’s. John was a man of God and preached all around Kentucky with one goal in mind, abolish slavery.
Episode 26: They Call Me Abolitionist
John G. Fee was an abolitionist and he founded Berea College. But Most importantly, he stood up for what he believed in but it wasn't the constitution, it was the word of God.
ABOLITIONIST MINISTER FORCED TO FLEE THE TOWN HE FOUNDED!
Family Tree Nuts Founder, Russ Carson, Jr, and Jameson Cable, of The Kentucky History Podcast take a look at our interesting subject. John G. Fee was a revolutionary abolitionist minister whose accomplishments involved the founding of the town Berea, Kentucky, and Berea College, the first integrated college in the South. His work with Freedmen in the 1860’s is his everlasting legacy. Dive in, and join the conversation with your own comments, and questions!
