Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Rhode Island Episcopal Church to Illuminate Its Slavery Role

Via Carl


One of the darkest chapters of Rhode Island history involved the state’s pre-eminence in the slave trade, beginning in the 1700s. More than half of the slaving voyages from the United States left from ports in Providence, Newport and Bristol — so many, and so contrary to the popular image of slavery as primarily a scourge of the South, that Rhode Island has been called “the Deep North.”

That history will soon become more prominent as the Episcopal diocese here, which was steeped in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, establishes a museum dedicated to telling that story, the first in the country to do so, according to scholars.

Many of the shipbuilders, captains and financiers of those slaving voyages were Episcopalians.

8 comments:

  1. This is why is why I no longer go to church, nor give them any money. This self-flagellation in public bit makes me want to vomit. I wonder if they realize they are doing nothing but giving the self-entitled, the world owes me everything crowd yet more ammunition?

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    1. Agreed, I bailed from them during the Vietnam war and commies have infiltrated every aspect of our society.

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    2. Back in the early 90's a good friend of mine brought me to a Latin Mass. Having never heard it before I experienced a bit of a spiritual reawakening and was very impressed with the priest. He was very old school and his homily's frequently touched upon the political criminal class of the day and how they were destroying the country from within, just like the preachers did during the revolution.
      The archdiocese of New York - in a very typical display of spinelessness - saw fit to have him barred from saying the mass in the state. Cardinal Egan himself later barred him completely from New York and told him he would have him de-frocked if he caught him saying the mass.

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  2. And the Brown family (my grandmother on my father's side) were some of the largest practitioners in the trade. But does that make me guilty for their ancestral sins? Not one little bit! They also made s pile of money in the ouster business. Should I feel guilty about that too?

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    1. Not at all, as their fellow brethren sold them to them and I'm sure they felt no remorse except wishing they had been paid more. The truth is inconvenient, isn't it liberals?

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  3. Give me that old time religion. The new time religion is not only worthless but dangerous to children and other living things.

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