The Church Created the Treaty, but Will the Church Care for it?
Britain was being dirty. The world had opened up. Along with Europe, Britain stretched across the globe, colonising old lands, settling new nations. But indigenous people were already there, guardians of these lands. So they were captured and taken as slaves, or killed, or worse. In some cases, under Italian born Columbus, Latino people were fed to dogs – alive, for fun. Now there was a particular group of Christians in a town called Clapham, in England. They read the newspapers, saw the slaves passing through, and thought to themselves, “We don’t believe God is well pleased with this s...