Emancipation 2

Tom couldn't comprehend what was happening to him, but he was conscious. He was conscious of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Was he imaging all this, or was it real? Was he stuck somewhere in the past with these slaves brought over from Africa to work the sugar plantations of the British imperialists? He began to cast his mind back over his own history, remembering the civil rights movement in America he realised he had entered the history of the African people who had been stolen from their own homes and families, shipped to countries far away to work for the white man. The same African slaves had ended up in America and forced to work on cotton plantations similar to the sugar plantation he was experiencing. The civil rights movement with it's history of defying the white man's system just to forge freedom for themselves. Defying school systems, bus regulations, everything they could defy without violence. Martin Luther King and his historic speech, the Alabama riots, the Ku Klux Klan, vilification and heroism.
Tom had became part of the historic journey of the abducted African people, simple people working the land, tending their cattle. They grew up married, and had children. Just ordinary people aware of tides and times, birth, death, courtship, marriage, all the norms of humanity was theirs. Until they were captured, often by Arabs who sold them to White men where their lives changed for ever. But in America hadn't it been different? When Parliament in Britain outlawed slavery, hadn't it been different? Tom's mind raced.
'This is your journey.' The quiet voice spoke to Tom.
Tom opened his eyes. He was laying in his own bed in familiar surroundings. looking at his skin he found he was white as he always had been.
'I gave you the word emancipation to show you the journey you are on. When Adam failed I knew the journey you would undertake. A journey that you don't understand, and a journey that is often painful for you. But what you didn't realise is that I had already taken care of all the necessities. You have been emancipated. Your freedom is assured in Jesus and you are with Me in Him continuously. What you don't understand is while living in a world of chaos, evil, and negativity; you are complete in Me. As the African slaves had to undertake a journey to freedom so my children have to undertake a journey of liberation with Me.
Don't worry Tom, I'll make sure you get it.