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Episcopal bishop calls for bell-tolling to remember 1619 slave-trade incident

by John Ruch August 21, 2019October 29, 2021

The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, based at Buckhead’s Cathedral of St. Philip, is calling on its churches and schools to toll bells on Aug. 25 in remembrance of the first enslaved African people forced to come to English North America 400 years ago this month. That 1619 event in what was then the Colony of […]

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