American Miracle Movie – Freedom for Slaves – Nicole Mullen
Did you know one large state freed all slaves in 1781? Brought out for the 250th anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Independence, this excerpt of an interview with Nicole C. Mullen, 9-time Dove award winning singer-songwriter, tells of her role as Elizabeth Freeman, a slave set free, in The American Miracle movie – americanmiraclemovie.com
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The American Miracle Movie:
What if the establishment of the United States of America, against all odds, was no accident? What if God’s Divine Hand guided the steps of the Founding Fathers, due to their faithfulness to Him and belief in His Providence? What if America is a miracle?
Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Michael Medved’s book of the same title, The American Miracle – Our Nation is No Accident, is an exciting, entertaining, and edifying motion picture experience created by Heroic Pictures in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
The history of the American Experiment is a fabric woven of countless instances of improbable, unimaginable success. Whether it is the supernatural protection that surrounded George Washington – the Father of our Country throughout his life, the mysterious weather conditions that favored the movements of the Continental Army at critical battlefield junctures, or, the unique, longstanding success of a revolution unlike any other in recorded world history; it is difficult, nearly impossible to explain the outcome of any of these, and so many more events like them, without allowing for divine intervention. In his first inaugural speech President George Washington described it as, “the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men.”
With a large cast, and filmed on location across the country and the United Kingdom, The American Miracle stars Pat Boone, Kevin Sorbo, Nicole C. Mullen, Cameron Arnett, and James Arnold Taylor, along with authors and scholars Joseph Ellis, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert P. George, Akhil Reed Amar, and Jana Novak, among many others.
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Nicole Mullen: In all of them, unanimously agreed that she should be free. But hers was granted because she asked. She was willing to take what she heard and to apply it and make her request.
Real Christian Families: We're very excited to have Nicole Mullen with us today. Nine-time Dove Award-winning and Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, Nicole makes her acting debut as Elizabeth Freeman, a slave set free in the Heroic Pictures film "American Miracle." I saw the movie "American Miracle" and loved it.
Embarrassingly, and I think this is true of everybody, I'd never heard of her before. I had no idea about that story. Her name is Elizabeth Freeman. This is your debut as an actress.
Nicole Mullen: Yes, on the big screen. I've had little parts here and there, but it was a good part. Like you said, I had never heard of her before until they asked me to play the part. I had to investigate a little bit.
She was a slave that lived in the 1700s. Why they didn't teach us this at school, I don't know. I think this would have been healing for so many of us on every side had they taught the truth of what happened in a lot of aspects and not just harped on the bad. Elizabeth was a slave in the 1700s, and she couldn't read, but she could retain what she heard. She had heard her master and his friends, who were lawyers, talking. Her master was a lawyer and then became a judge.
She kept hearing them talk about the Sheffield Resolves. They were in Massachusetts, and they were putting together resolves to let England know that they wanted to be free. She retained it. Then she heard in 1776 that based on the Sheffield Resolves, the Declaration of Independence was written. It said all men were created equal and independent of each other and free. She thought, "All men?"
Then she heard it a third time when the Constitution of Massachusetts was written. It said all men are created equal and independent of each other. She thought, "Something has to give." She and her mistress had an altercation and she had gotten beat. She ran away to one of the lawyers who was a friend of her master.
She said to him, "I've heard you all talk. I've been listening. You've been talking about all men being created equal and wanting to be free from the crown. I want to be free. Does 'all men' mean me as well? Am I included?" He had to sit back and think how he was caught in that. He decided to take her case and took it before the courts.
They had an all-white jury in front of an all-white judge, and all of them unanimously agreed that she should be free. They gave her her freedom in 1781. In 1783, all of the slaves in Massachusetts were freed subsequently. It took another hundred years for the rest of the slaves in the United States, but hers was granted because she asked. She was willing to take what she heard and to apply it and make her request.
Real Christian Families: A hundred years for the rest of them. That's something that she—well, I don't know if I'm telling too much of the movie, but she was hit with a fire iron.
Nicole Mullen: Yes, you've got to see the movie "American Miracle." She kept the wound exposed all winter long so that people would ask her what happened. When they'd ask, "What happened?" she would say, "Ask Madam. Ask mistress. She did it." That was her revenge. Eventually, because of that, it facilitated her saying enough is enough.
Sometimes God will let us grow uncomfortable in our situation so that we will crave a change and to let us know that He has change available. He has something different for us. I think that if her life remained comfortable enough, she may have just settled for, "It's not that bad." Because of that particular wound, she felt she couldn't live with it.
The same is true with us even as parents. When it's time to deliver a child, it's not the fact that we are feeling so good about everything that makes us say, "Now it's time to push." No, it's the discomfort. It hurts so bad, and that lets us know that new life is about to begin. New life is about to be birthed through us.
The same is true often with us. Sometimes we give up too soon. We think those contractions are signifying that everything is doom and gloom and everything is over. God says, "No, don't give up yet. Declare who I am. Declare I know my redeemer lives. Push. Sing a song. Push. Believe me again. Push. Read my word. Push." You're about to become something new. You're about to become a parent. You're about to be entrusted with new life, a new assignment.
I think sometimes we want to put a period where God is just putting a comma. This pain is not the end of it; it's just a part of it. It's a part of the process to bring you into what it is that I have for you. I think somebody may be thinking that the thing I'm going through is the end of me. God is saying, "No, it's the beginning of you. It's the beginning of a new chapter. It's a part of your story for the glory of God and for the good of you."
Don't be afraid of that process. In that process, cry out to God like we do as women. "I need you, Lord. Can you help me?" Every single time, He's there. He's either going to walk us through to the end on this side or He's going to walk us through to the end on that side. Either way, we win. The victory is already done in Jesus Christ. Either way, we win.
(Singing)
Freedom, freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
Ain't got no halo
No wings to fly away
I've got to labor
For many, many days
I'm on a journey
I'm looking for a place
To rest my burden
Far from this tyranny
Oh, from the shores of Africa
To the doors of America
With voices to heaven
Praying for liberty
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
We marched in Alabama
We marched in Tennessee
Brown men and white men
In a line for equality
Yes, we did, y'all
We kept our chin up
We kept our dignity
At this proclamation time
Let everybody sing
Oh, from the shores of Africa
To the doors of America
With voices to heaven
Praying for liberty
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
(Spoken)
One minute's freedom had been offered to me
Especially in that old age
And I'd been told that I must die at the end of that minute
I would have taken it
Just to stand one minute
On God's earth as a free woman
(Singing)
I'm gonna let my shout out
I'm gonna let my shout out
I'm gonna let my shout out
I'm gonna let my shout out
Freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom, freedom
We cry freedom, freedom, freedom
My heart cries freedom!
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