Slaves of the Churches A History, The Wellpark College flying colours' (Elysia Marie Vaughan

flying colours' (Elysia Marie Vaughan

The next section traces the evolution of the medieval

the volume offers an important scholarly corrective to the axiom that religious traditions simply and always embrace life at any cost

Step-by-step writing explanations and tasks centered on content area readings help students develop and refine academic writing at the sentence and paragraph level

The book also stresses that letters are unparalleled as intimate and immediate records of family relationships

Slaves of the Churches A History, The Wellpark College flying colours' (Elysia Marie VaughanIn recent years, stories of religious universities and institutions grappling with their slave owning past have made headlines in the news. People find it shocking that the Church itself could have been involved in such a sordid business. This timely book, the result of many years of research, is a study of the origins of this problem. Mary E. Sommar examines how the church sought to establish norms for slave ownership on the part of ecclesiastical