tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625783.post114506517907413639..comments2024-01-02T21:15:59.849-06:00Comments on The First Presbyterian Church of Jackson Mississippi: "David Livingstone I presume"Ligon Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09153063931277545598noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625783.post-1145996635368042712006-04-25T15:23:00.000-05:002006-04-25T15:23:00.000-05:00On the "..abolishing the desolating slave trade of...On the "..abolishing the desolating slave trade of Central Africa...", It is hard to imagine this type trade ever evolving in regards to our education and legal process of today. <BR/><BR/>Takes ones breath away to realize how bad it must have been. <BR/><BR/>I learned, just this past year from an American summer-missionary who goes to Africa, that todays African thinks the American Africans hate them immensly. They have much guilt for the devastation they brought on their own kind as it was the power tribes that caught these poor soles and brought them to the coastal towns to sell into slavery. These power tribes were trying to get rid of their enemy and make money (or equal traded value) along with the deal. <BR/><BR/>It was not the sailors & ship captains that ramsacked the villages & ruined families to take them from their land. It was their own kind. One tribe fighting another, just like the rampage siege that killed so many thousands just a few short years ago in the Congo. <BR/><BR/>Think of all the rath the white American has had to carry due to this purging. Think of that "open sore of the World" that Dr. Livingstone tried to help. He was in Africa from 1843 to 1873 and our church was first organized in 1837 and the first santuary built in 1848. <BR/><BR/>I wonder if any of those original First Presbyterians knew of Dr. Livingstone since he was from Europe, considering communication at that time ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com