Resisting the revisionist history of slavery. by Gavin Ashenden
Sarah Mullally, as the Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, has gone on tour of Africa where she is wrecking the reputation of the only people to do anything about ending slavery. William Wilberforce, and his fellow abolitionists, including the group known as the Clapham Sect, achieved the impossible. They ended Britain’s slave trade. With the energetic, valiant and self-sacrificial help of the British Navy, they enforced that abolition on the High Seas.
The economic cost alone was enormous. The courage required was substantial. The present Archbishop is weeping for a guilt on behalf of people who carried no guilt, and promising money she has no moral right to disburse, that should be used to help shore up the collapse of the ecclesial community she is responsible for.
But the real disaster is her indoctrinated wokery, which is wrecking the reputation of the Church she has inherited responsibility for, obscured the inspiration of Jesus on the lives of reformers and history, and immersed salvific heroism in a dark pool of undeserved guilt.
Slavery was a monstrous evil. Africans were captured, sold, transported and treated as property. Christians should neither minimise that horror nor excuse those who profited from it.
But Project Spire, is a complete factual and ideological disaster.
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