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NJ Reparations Council: Organized religion supported slavery
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NJ Reparations Council continues with public hearings on slavery's impact
The New Jersey Reparations Council is continuing public outreach sessions to explore the history and impact of slavery in New Jersey. On Thursday night, a committee within the council titled "Faith and Black Resistance" held the third hearing.
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NJ Reparations Council: Organized religion supported slavery
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The New Jersey Reparations Council is continuing public outreach sessions to explore the history and impact of slavery in New Jersey. On Thursday night, a committee within the council titled "Faith and Black Resistance" held the third hearing.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThe state's Reparations Council is continuing public outreach sessions to explore the history and impact of slavery in New Jersey.
Last night, a committee within the council titled Faith and Black Resistance held the third hearing with testimony from public leaders like Reverend Charles Boyer.
He's the senior pastor of the Mount Zion AME Church in Trenton who spoke about the rarely discussed role of organized religion supporting the slave trade in New Jersey and those within faith groups who benefited from it.
Boyer says many of the churches and cathedrals we see today are still being upheld by the wealth and endowment they were given, either through taxes or tithes from slave owners.
On Juneteenth of 2025, the council will release a report drawing connections between New Jersey's history of slavery and the present, with a blueprint of recommendations to confront and repair the harm it's caused.
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