"The
first and oldest educational institution of the Southern Baptist
Convention disclosed in a report Wednesday that its four founders
together owned more than 50 slaves, part of a reckoning over racism in
the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
The 71-page report
released by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is a recitation
of decades of bigotry, directed first at African slaves and later at
African-Americans. Beginning with the founding of the seminary in
Greenville, S.C., in 1859, the report found that the school, with few
exceptions, backed a white supremacist ideology."
The N.Y. Times
The full N.Y. Times story is HERE (paywall).
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