Slaves of the Churches A History, The Wellpark College flying colours' (Elysia Marie Vaughan

flying colours' (Elysia Marie Vaughan

The book also stresses that letters are unparalleled as intimate and immediate records of family relationships

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Explore the history of democracy and how people began to believe in it

Slaves of the Churches A History, The Wellpark College flying colours' (Elysia Marie VaughanIn recent years, stories of religious universities and institutions grappling with their slave owning past have made headlines in the news. People find it shocking that the Church itself could have been involved in such a sordid business. This timely book, the result of many years of research, is a study of the origins of this problem. Mary E. Sommar examines how the church sought to establish norms for slave ownership on the part of ecclesiastical