About
This webinar is the second panel in the series of online discussions about the Anglican Church and Slavery entitled Truth Telling: Slavery and the Anglican Church, held in advance of the flagship international convening planned in 2025 to explore the historical involvement of the Anglican Church in the institution of slavery, the lasting implications of colonialism on the Church and actions to progress racial justice by the Church of England Racial Justice Unit (CoERJU).
CoERJU are guided by the Archbishop’s anti-racism taskforce report and the work to address the Church Commissioners report on historic links to transatlantic slavery.
The CoERJU ‘truth-telling’ convening will be held in Liverpool, a city itself steeped in the history of the transatlantic traffic and enslavement of Africans and home to the International Slavery Museum.
The series is produced, hosted and promoted by the University of Liverpool Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS), supporting the CoERJU to build an online repository of research and knowledge on this topic open to all.
The opening webinar explored the relationship between the Anglican church and slavery involvement, financial benefits, and the impact on religious teachings.
Visit 'People, not Property, names not numbers' webpage to watch a recording of the opening webinar.
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Details of Panel 2 “Women, Slavery and the Church”
This webinar is the second panel in the series of online discussions about the Anglican Church and Slavery. This collaborative series explores the historical involvement of the Anglican Church in the institution of slavery, the lasting implications of colonialism on the Church and actions to progress racial justice by the Church of England Racial Justice Unit (CoERJU). This seminar will be held online, introducing our stellar panellists' work, with an audience Q&A at the end.
This webinar considers specifically the role of women as enslavers/beneficiaries of African enslavement and their links to the Anglican church, including religious justifications for keeping African-descended people enslaved. It will focus on women as resistors/rebels against slavery (including as church leaders); and how women, especially Black women, are viewed in the church today as a result of slavery.
Michelle Charters, head of the International Slavery Museum, will moderate this panel.
Panellists
Fiona Compton (Know Your Caribbean)
Professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (UC Berkeley)
Chine McDonald (Theos)
Reading List
Women, Slavery and the Church reading list
