The Episcopal Diocese of New York announced its intention to issue a formal apology for the “participation and complicity of the diocese” in the transatlantic slave trade and its “continuing aftermath and consequences.”
Donate NowThe Episcopal Diocese of New York announced that it intends to issue a formal apology on Saturday for the “participation and complicity of the diocese” in the transatlantic slave trade and its “continuing aftermath and consequences.”
The complicity that we identify in our diocese had everything to do with the labors of enslaved people and the money built by the slave trade, in establishing and building our churches. This is where our complicity is and this is what we're apologizing for on Saturday.”The apology is decades, if not centuries, in the making. A resolution adopted by the Episcopalians’ national leadership at its 2006 General Convention called slavery a “sin” and a betrayal of the “humanity of all persons.
The diocese comprises 184 parishes spread across Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx, as well as Westchester, Dutchess, Orange and other suburban counties. There are 1.6 million members of the U.S. Episcopal Church and 77 million worldwide in what’s known as the Anglican Communion.Cynthia R.
“He at the end said, ‘I believe now that some atonement and some repair is due,’” Gibson recounted. “I was almost in tears listening to him.” The church, said Dietsche, still has “slave galleries” upstairs where the men and women enslaved by congregants sat on “very, very low risers” while their owners sat in pews on the ground floor or in separate balconies.
Copeland said it’s likely some Black Episcopalians would not accept the church’s apology, having directly “felt the wrath of white Episcopalians within the churches” or experienced microaggressions over the years.
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