In 1751, Pennsylvania cast a bell and had it inscribed with Leviticus 25:10:
"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof."
Twenty-five years later, that bell rang over the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
Jeremy W. Collins believes the men who built this country forged American liberty the way a foundry forges a bell: the metal, the mold, the casting, the tower. Proclaim Liberty tells the stories of five of them. Joseph Warren pledged everything at Bunker Hill and paid in full. William Penn walked unarmed into Lenape territory and made a peace that held for seventy years. Jonathan Edwards read a sermon in a monotone and shook a continent. Samuel Adams spent twenty years proclaiming the rights of the colonists before one December night in Boston Harbor. John Witherspoon trained the men who wrote the Constitution. All five worked from a Biblical worldview, and each carried an element of liberty a father can still hand down to his children.
July 4, 2026 marks five Jubilees since American independence. Collins calls it the Penta-Jubilee, and he wrote this book for it. The bell was forged once, and he is asking this generation to ring it again.
Proclaim Liberty is the first of five volumes in the Proclaim America Series.
Proclaim Liberty: Five Essential Elements for American Greatness
Jeremy W. Collins is a God-fearing Baptist, a Mississippi family man, and an American history enthusiast with a desire to connect the foundations of our republic to the next generation of citizens. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and brings more than two decades of management experience at a family-owned food service manufacturing business, after a childhood of farm work and road construction that taught him ideas without initiative are just illusions. He has been married to his high school sweetheart for twenty-four years, and together they are raising four children. He once worked as a rodeo clown, and he survived a timber rattlesnake bite. Proclaim Liberty is his first book and the opening volume of the Proclaim America Series, written for America's 250th anniversary.
