This is the story of a gathering of people to Cane Ridge, Kentucky and their revival toward a strong religious nation.

In the summer of 1801, 18 Presbyterian ministers, plus several Baptists and Methodists, gathered at a Presbyterian meeting house in Bourbon County for one of the largest "camp meeting" revivals ever seen up to that time. Claims that up to twenty five thousand of people camped out but in all actuality a more reliable figure may be near one thousand gathered to hear the preachers' message of unity among denominations and a return to biblical basics. Backgrounds of those who attended weren't in concern. Many of the sermons had social and political messages, too, inspiring some revivalgoers to return home and emancipate their slaves.

The Cane Ridge revival is credited as "the impetus" for the founding of the Christian Church

Regardless of the number of people who attended, one thing is for certain, scores of people packed tightly together during the rainstorms to participate. So many that moving about was difficult. Some preachers stood on logs others on tree stumps to convey their stories. People who were out of hearing range testified amongst themselves. Strange was their religious worship. They hollered, danced, shouted as if celebrating gala party. The din even described like the sound of Niagara Falls. The revivals lasted throughout the night and into the day and went on for days.

The problem was that time was not on her side. As the years went by, slavery in the south became stronger after the invention of Elli Whitney's cotton gin. Businessmen in the north felt that antislavery was dangerous. The antislavery movement intruded upon business up and down the coast. Because of the potato famine many Irish immigrants were already intruding on the free jobs in the north. The free black labors created a strong competition for jobs.

Revivalism spread throughout the Ohio valley and points east between 1800 and 1804. Waxhaws, South Carolina saw three thousand when twenty preachers stood before them while praising God upward toward the south. Remains of this revival are evident today in this area and south.

She assisted the underground railroad by peacefully moving escaped slaved from safe house to safe house throughout the 1840's. But the U.S. Government intervened by passing the Fugitive Slave Law in 1851. The purpose was to assist by some forceful actions to recapture escaped slaves. Some members of the antislavery movement began to believe that force was necessary to protect the fleeing slaves. The connection between antislavery and nonresistance was broken when a slave named William Parker who must have been an escaped slave in the town of Christiana, organized a mutual-protection group against slave hunters. Violence erupted when a slave master came to Christiana looking for four escaped slaves. An armed conflict arose, and the slave owner was killed and his son wounded. End the end William was able to flee to Canada and a large number of blacks were taken prisoner and charged with treason. Three white farmers were also arrested for refusing to obey the marshal's order to help capture the slaves.

Because of the problems surrounding her ideas, Lucretia ran into much resistance. Even that as to where her meetings would be held. She regarded Mayor Roach's suggestions as disrespectful. Not only white women, but all women. This must have been especially demeaning to black women of the time.

Lucretia was known to travel extensively in order to convey her message of freedom. She and James Mott traveled to England where the World's Anti-Slavery Convention was held. There, Lucretia was denied a seat on the convention floor. She did however, handle herself in a very dignified way since the British wasn't adapting well to the thought that women could serve as delegates. This had a profound and permanent impact. She changed the rules of political debate when she and Elizabet

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