by Tom DeWolf | Dec 18, 2007 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
Today has been an historic day in Washington, D.C. Representative John C0nyers, Jr. (D-Michigan) chaired an Oversight Hearing on the Legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 20, 2007 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
One of the most disturbing facts I learned while doing research for my book, Inheriting the Trade, is that slavery continues to flourish today. I was blind to it. I occasionally encountered stories about young women being forced into prostitution, or children working...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 17, 2007 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
After writing yesterday about the blog of a Baptist minister in England in which she told of her church’s process leading them to apologize for their role in historic slavery, today I find that the entire Baptist Union of Great Britain has been struggling with...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 16, 2007 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
I ran across the blog of Kezia Lama, one of the ministers at Wakefield Baptist Church in Wakefield, UK, just south of Leeds in the north of England. The church has been debating whether to offer an apology for slavery. Her blog post begins: “The last session of...
