Rhode Island: Shuttered cathedral may become slave trade museum as Episcopal Church seeks to unbury past
Via Billy
A
plan to open what would be the nation's only museum centered on the
trans-Atlantic slave trade would focus on the Episcopal Church's role in
its history and the sometimes-buried legacy of slavery in northern
states like Rhode Island.
The museum at the
shuttered Cathedral of St. John, a church where slaves once worshipped,
would explore how the church benefited from the trade and helped bring
it to an end, said Bishop Nicholas Knisely of the Diocese of Rhode
Island.
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