“And that is, just how central the Christian churches — the Catholics, Presbyterians and Anglicans, etc. — were in the grisly enterprise of the Atlantic slave trade.”
Funny how she is leaving out a VERY big participant in slave trading and slave transportation.
Yes, such as Kamala Harris’s relatives, the slave traders in Jamaica who sold the black people kidnapped by opposing African tribes and Arabs.
As in the historical memoir:
Reflections of a Jamaican Father
By
Donald J. Harris (excerpt here)
My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter....