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American Irony: Religious Freedom & African Enslavement in Colonial Newport

by Keith Stokes | Mar 2, 2014 | Daily Life, Religion, Women

Newport, Rhode Island in the mid-18th century embodied two marked ironies. Settled a century earlier on the principles of religious freedom and civil liberties, the fledging colony would attract many of the world’s most persecuted religious minority groups including...

A Dialogue Between Two African Women

by Theresa Guzmán Stokes | Dec 20, 2013 | Religion, Women

‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race with scornful eye, “Their colour is a diabolic...

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