Echoes: Fountain Hughes

Fountain Hughes (1848 - 1952) understood the perilous institution of slavery because he'd survived it. It can safely be interviewed from his interview that he was averse to accepting debt service in the form of "buying on time" because this scheme was rooted in the doctrine of unequal exchange, a vivid reminder of his chattel slavery past.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. - Proverbs 22:7 (KJV)

Mr. Hughes was a man determined to live freely in every sense of the word and to help future generations also know how to live. Although living before the credit card era, he knew what we're never officially taught but too often discover firsthand:

Debt = Slavery.

Many of us would rather forget the sorrowful details of the interview above but just as the novice fitness seeker knows that muscle pain only disappears through a continued exercise regimen, we may only exorcise the damage of the past like Mr. Fountain did, by letting it flow like healing streams of water into the parched mental and spiritual gardens of posterity. We share his compelling testimony according to the oral tradition of our ancestors.