Poem Commentary

God is Able to move the hearts of men. When the first settlers arrived, they focussed on rectifying what was affecting their own livelihood - poor job conditions, employee harassment, unsafe job sites at the coal mines, unfair treatment at the meat industry, being passed over for work after lining up for days or weeks without working, being forced to place their young ones into child labor, poverty and little to eat. As soon as some men were able to do better, they became aware of the inhumane treatment of others. The time became ripe for God to 'send them like Moses to let his people free - Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Abraham Lincoln. After this, others saw that being free was not enough, and fought for non-segregation and equal rights - Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and others