RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116635253137177844

Pope #Incognegro is doing his AfroCarib Haitian grandfather and Creole African American grandmother proud.

#PopeLeoXIV #popewatching #antiracism #antislavery #antifa

First person executed in USA was
#antislavery #Abolitionist activist , racialised as 'white', was #JohnBrown

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/_c0LJ2a_uMc?ra=m

Whittier HATED slavery...

So fallen! so lost! the light
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!
...
Oh, dumb be passion’s stormy rage,
When he who might
Have lighted up and led his age,
Falls back in night.

—John Greenleaf Whittier, "Ichabod"

Whittier opposed slavery totally, though he wrote this about Daniel Webster, who at the end, decided to compromise with slavers, to preserve the nation.
#AntiSlavery
#Poetry #Heroes are #Failures often.

William Cunningham, co-founder of the Free Church of Scotland, pointed out that while society may imprison or even execute criminals, that hardly justifies slavery. Equating punishment with lifelong bondage is not argument but tidying up a moral mess. The awkward question, then: when we see injustice today, do we merely explain it—or actually help someone escape it?

#christian #churchofscotland #antislavery #theologymatters

Charles John Ellicott, Anglican bishop, notes Paul doesn’t smash slavery with a hammer; he slips yeast into the dough. Christianity seeps in, alters the taste, and—awkwardly for slavery—turns chains into contradictions. Christianized bondage becomes liberty. So which institutions are you quietly leavening?

#heaven #christian #theologymatters #antislavery #leaven #anglican

James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?

#antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology