The Liberty Bell

In 1751, the Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly ordered a bell to be placed at the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The bell was to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of William Penn’s “Charter of Privileges”—addressing Penn’s ideas of rights and freedoms, and adopted as Pennsylvania’s original constitution. And on the bell is inscribed words from Leviticus 25:10: “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof . . .” The be

1.9K views · 139 reactions | #DidYouKnow William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists cherished the Liberty Bell because of the verse it proclaimed? Garrison readily quoted Leviticus 25:10 in his private letters and abolitionist ministers often used the verse in their sermons and writings. | Museum of the Bible | Facebook