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Book Review: Robert C. Davis, Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (opens the original)
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Was the enslavement of Africans and their descendants, so as to compel them to labor in North and South America, worse than the enslavement of Europeans by the Barbary powers of North Africa?It was worse in one sense only, writes scholar Robert Davis. There were more Africans and their descendants subject to slavery than there were Europeans, and for that reason alone the African version of slavery was worse from the secular standpoint. There were other differences between the two systems, but t
Part Two of a Book Review: Rachel Swarns, The 272: The Families who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church, Random House, New York, 2023 (opens the original)
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The book, as I’ve alluded, goes into the gory details of Jesuit slavery in Maryland, culminating in a massive slave sale which mainly centered around 1839. The two main perps in the slave sale were Fr. William McSherry and Fr. Thomas Mulledy. They were both Presidents of Georgetown and they were both the top Jesuits in Maryland. They switched back and forth between the two posts. The bottom line is that the Jesuits made a bunch of money from selling their fellow Catholics, and the money built up
Part One of a Book Review: Rachel Swarns, The 272: The Families who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church, Random House, New York, 2023 (opens the original)
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I’m going to be doing some preliminary reflection before getting to the meat of the book. Here’s a really big surprise: The preliminary reflection, and the review, are some heavy shit. You still have time to go for something less heavy. Like this article. Or you could at least see what I’m going to say. I’d like to know that myself.New Forms of Captivity is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and sup
Did Martin Luther King, Jr. commit a thought crime (opens the original)
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This Substack will be talking about many evil forms of captivity, technically called new forms of captivity.But some of these kinds of captivity are not actually new.New Forms of Captivity is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<
This Substack Has Changed (opens the original)
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Now, in accord with the Charism of the Mercedarian religious order (a Catholic order) this Substack will focus on what the Order’s Constitution of 2014 calls “new forms of captivity.”According to this link:New Forms of Captivity is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="e
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