Experience the American dream with today’s Patriot of the Past interview. I’m your host, John Gillespie.
It’s February 14, 1779. I’m at Fort Cornwallis in Augusta, Georgia. I’m in the stockade visiting with the captured Yankee, Governor Heard.
JG: “Governor Heard, are you being treated fairly by …”
MK: “Governor Heard … honey … it’s Mammy Kate, I’ve come to set you free. I’m gonna sneak you out of here as sure as porcupines prick beavers.”
Amazingly, Mammy Kate, the African-American slave of Governor Heard, did smuggle her master to freedom from the British.
Read more about Mammy Kate and her daring rescue of Governor Stephen Heard.
John and Jan Gillespie are the founders of the Rawhide Boys’ Ranch; they have fostered 351 teenagers and wrote the book Our 351 Sons; they have also assisted numerous churches in developing youth programs and expanding their total church ministries. After running for U.S. Senate, John founded 1776 American Dream, which exists to demonstrate the vision of our founding fathers and help our generation of youth passionately embrace those values.
