In 1986, just before Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker was born, her grandma and mom were part of a homecoming of thousands of descendants of the Somerset Place plantation. Every summer since then, ...
Did Jesus approve of slavery, and of the whipping of a slaver’s chattel? Edwin Epps believes so. He quotes Luke 12:47: “And that servant … shall be beaten with many stripes.” By “many stripes,” the ...
Since this is Black History Month, consider the case of Thomas Thistlewood who died in 1786, notorious among Jamaicans, for his 14,000-page diary, documenting his time as a plantation owner. He ...
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