During Tuesday’s Empty Altars session, I shared the stories of two women who inspire me: Mother Ann Lee and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Ann Lee, born in 1736 in Manchester, England, was the daughter of impoverished parents. She went to work in the brutal cotton mills of the English Industrial Revolution as a child. She was illiterate. In 1758, she joined an ecsta…
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