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The Film:
Interview Transcripts:
Greg Wilson
Greg Wilson,
historian and Miller descendant on
the power of religious conviction
 It's not because
the people coming through are friends. It's not because they can look
at them and see similarities between their lives and their own.
They're doing it because they believe, they're convinced, that God has
instructed them to do this. In Sugar Grove, religion is the driving
force.
The Miller family had this passage marked in the family Bible, it's
from Deuteronomy 23:, verses 15-16: "Slaves who have escaped to you
from their owners shall not be given back to them. They shall dwell
among you, in your midst, in any place they choose in any one of your
towns, wherever they please; you shall not oppress them."
That's why you see in Sugar Grove the fugitives are not hiding in
secret places. "They shall dwell among you." And I think that is the
point. You are not going to treat them any differently than anyone
else who comes and stays with you. |
