Catholicism & Slavery

The National Catholic Reporter has a story about slavery and the church, and it is centered on Montgomery.

"...many enslaved people adapted Christianity to their own circumstances and used it as a very different form of imagining justice in the United States," he said, "compared to, for example, white evangelical Protestants who have such different views about the role of government and political issues."

A lot of the new attention to Montgomery comes as a result of EJI's memorial to black lynching victims.

"Arthur St. Clair, a minister, was lynched in Hernando County, Florida, in 1877 for performing the wedding of a black man and white woman," reads a sign.
The memorial, on a 6-acre site, is described by its creators as "a sacred space for truth-telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy."

But even before it was built, signs memorialized the city's role in slavery. The article points out:

"..in 1860 Montgomery, there were more places for trading slaves than hotels and churches.