It took courage to speak out against slavery. John G. Fee was one man who not only spoke out against slavery. He took action. An outspoken abolitionist, he moved to a community of scattered farms in southern Madison County known as the Glade. He built a home and opened a church and a one-room school. From the beginning, Fee’s intent was to build a utopian community where people of all races and all classes could work, worship, live, and learn together. He called it Berea.