Posted on 05/14/2023 11:24:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women in New Testament scenes has stirred up questions about race, Rhode Island’s role in the slave trade and the place of women in 19th century New England society.
The window installed at the long-closed St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Warren in 1878 is the oldest known public example of stained glass on which Christ is depicted as a person of color that one expert has seen.
“This window is unique and highly unusual,” said Virginia Raguin, a professor of humanities emerita at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and an expert on the history of stained-glass art. “I have never seen this iconography for that time.”
The 12-foot tall, 5-foot wide (3.7 meters by 1.5 meters) window depicts two biblical passages in which women, also painted with dark skin, appear as equals to Christ. One shows Christ in conversation with Martha and Mary, the sisters of Lazarus, from the Gospel of Luke. The other shows Christ speaking to the Samaritan woman at the well from the Gospel of John. […]
The window was commissioned by a Mary P. Carr in honor of two women, apparently her late aunts, whose names appear on the glass, (Hadley) Arnold said. Mrs. H. Gibbs and Mrs. R. B. DeWolf were sisters, and both married into families involved in the slave trade. The DeWolf family made a fortune as one of the nation’s leading slave-trading families; Gibbs married a sea captain who worked for the DeWolfs. Both women had been listed as donors to the American Colonization Society, founded to support the migration of freed slaves to Liberia in Africa. …
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For 50 points :
Who was James Monroe?
The last founding Father President.
“Logic leans a lot farther toward darker skin and black hair rather than light skinned and blonde hair.”
Logic would lean to the complexion of Jews in the Old Testament.
Jesus had to have someone point him out to the Romans. He looked like the average Jew.
Okay; I get it now, sorry.
Given Biden’s mental state, he would no doubt mix up Jesus and Obama.
Interesting:
“. The DeWolf family made a fortune as one of the nation’s leading slave-trading families; Gibbs married a sea captain who worked for the DeWolfs.
Both women had been listed as donors to the American Colonization Society, founded to support the migration of freed slaves to Liberia in Africa. The controversial effort was overwhelmingly rejected by Black people in America, leading many former supporters to become abolitionists instead.”
Nearby Newport was the home port for dozens of US slave ships back in the day with many of the slave ships owned by rich Jewish Newport merchants. Newport had the largest Synagogue in the US at the time.
But then, facts and truth that
are uncomplimentary to Jews is by definition antisemitic. So this must not be mentioned.
For seventy points
What’s the name of the capital of Liberia?
Monroevia
I think I misspelled it.
He looked like a Mizrahic Jew - we have them here in the NYC area.
Named in honor of James Monroe...
it was to be the land of liberty and the black man’s paradise.
As a finished nation it is the 7th poorest nation in Africa, highest per capita corruption, highest unemployment, highest illiteracy and needless to say crime.
If that is Blackmans paradise, Chicago, Detroit, and Baltimore are almost there.
Seriously though, look up James Monroe and the riot America had when slavery was outlawed.
Also note the stupid freed blacks who went to Africa enslaved the indigenous from 1820 to 1997. That was the first lie in lie-beeria, the land named after liberty. Truly farsical but true.
Black power at work. BLM in the driver’s seat.
power of ignorance.
RIOTs not riot
I interviewed a lady who was at & helped author the book on Benghazi which became the movie. She said the American contractors were routinely stopped like depicted at the beginning of the movie because they wore their beards long like the Taliban. She said Libyans were more European/ Middle Eastern in appearance & culture & suspected those outside the norm.
One window in freaking New England and now Jesus has to be black. Good grief.
Could be the glass artist ran out of white man colored glass. /s
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