When the preacher called for people to sign a petition to get rid of Virginia Randolph, when the folks in that country church tried to rise up, Virginia felt betrayed. She was one of them. Her parents had been enslaved just like their parents had been enslaved. She was poor just like they were poor. She worked just like they worked. She wanted what they wanted: for their children to have everything they never did. Freedom. Justice. Opportunity. The fact that the congregants couldn’t see it yet just meant she had more work to do.
