#missionary — Public Fediverse posts

[8½ years ago today]

I found my #doppelganger in a #painting. The #cyrillic #inscription makes me think he was called #Peter and was a #missionary in #japan. | #typographyinthewild #typography #Russian #russiantypography #cyrillictypography

(First posted 8 Sept. 2016 by me [@][email protected])

#BestOfMyGrams

Beatings, brandings, suicides: life on plantations owned by Church of England missionary arm | Slavery | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/25/beatings-brandings-suicides-life-on-plantations-owned-by-church-of-england-missionary-arm

#Slavery
#COfE
#AnglicanChurch
#Violence
#Suicide
#Beating
#Branding
#Plantation
#LambethPalace
#Welby
#CodringtonSugarEstate
#EnslavedPeople
#CodringtonPlantations
#SocietyForThePropagationOfTheGospelInForeignParts
#Missionary
#WinchesterUni

Revealed: how #ChurchOfEngland’s ties to #ChattelSlavery went to top of hierarchy

#LambethPalace documents show purchase of #EnslavedPeople in 18th century approved by Anglican #archbishop

• Life on #plantations owned by Church of England #missionary arm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/25/revealed-how-church-of-englands-ties-to-chattel-slavery-went-to-top-of-hierarchy
#Religion #Slavery

started a #wikipedia article on American physician Kate C. Woodhull (1842-1926), medical missionary at Fuzhou, China from 1884 to 1912: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_C._Woodhull @wikiwomeninred #Physician #Suffrage #RiverheadNY #Missionary #Fuzhou

started @wikipedia article on American missionary teacher and writer Charlotte C. Wyckoff (1893-1966), born in India to missionary parents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_C._Wyckoff @wikiwomeninred #India #missionary #education #writer #WellesleyCollege