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Heart and Soul: The Church's slave plantation, part two

The Documentary Podcast

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The Impact of Enslavement on the Faith in Barbados

The Church at most Barbadians have been following since the first enslaved Africans were converted to the faith centuries ago. Monies that were gained from the enslavement of Africans here, and from the free labor that they got, is still enriching the Church of England today. Could there really be a theological argument for reparations to be used as a method of atonement? I've just left St. Leonard's Anglican Church, in the middle of Old Bridgetown,. The kind of Barbados that tourists have to go off the beaten track to arrive at.

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