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The Great Wound: Confessions of a Slaveholding Family

Kenneth W. Collier

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Description:Alice Walker wrote that "The world is not healed in the abstract. Healing begins where the wound was made." The wound of American racism was made by American slavery. The healing, then, must begin there, with people telling the truth of their ancestors' history. This book tells the truth of Collier's family. They held human beings in bondage from the mid-17th century until Emancipation in 1865 and then participated in the neo-slavery of the Jim Crow Era . He then uses the tools of moral and spiritual trauma to understand how the wound has remained open in the form of racism.In this moving new spiritual and philosophical work, Collier examines his own family’s past crimes and the lasting impact they have had in their community and the world at large. Along the way, he offers invaluable insights into the process of both personal and national confrontation and atonement.Kenneth W. Collier holds a doctorate in philosophy and a master’s of divinity. He spent many years caring for congregations at Unitarian Universalist churches across America before retiring in 2007.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Great Wound: Confessions of a Slaveholding Family. To get started finding The Great Wound: Confessions of a Slaveholding Family, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Alice Walker wrote that "The world is not healed in the abstract. Healing begins where the wound was made." The wound of American racism was made by American slavery. The healing, then, must begin there, with people telling the truth of their ancestors' history. This book tells the truth of Collier's family. They held human beings in bondage from the mid-17th century until Emancipation in 1865 and then participated in the neo-slavery of the Jim Crow Era . He then uses the tools of moral and spiritual trauma to understand how the wound has remained open in the form of racism.In this moving new spiritual and philosophical work, Collier examines his own family’s past crimes and the lasting impact they have had in their community and the world at large. Along the way, he offers invaluable insights into the process of both personal and national confrontation and atonement.Kenneth W. Collier holds a doctorate in philosophy and a master’s of divinity. He spent many years caring for congregations at Unitarian Universalist churches across America before retiring in 2007.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Great Wound: Confessions of a Slaveholding Family. To get started finding The Great Wound: Confessions of a Slaveholding Family, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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