'There is a story from the American Civil War of a Northerner who bought a young slave girl at a slave auction. As they left the auction, the man turned to the girl and said, "You're free!"
She turned to him in amazement. "You mean I'm free to do whatever I want?"
"Yes," he said.
"And to say whatever I want to say?"
"Yes, anything."
"And to be whatever I want to be?"
"Yes!"
"And even go wherever I want to go?"
"Yes!" He laughed. "You're free to go wherever you'd like!"
She looked at him intently and replied, "Then I will go with you."'
Sally Lloyd-Jones, Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing, p.118.
