{"id":132156,"date":"2024-10-22T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132156"},"modified":"2024-10-22T18:48:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:48:24","slug":"church-times-archbishop-justin-welby-is-descended-from-a-slave-owner-he-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132156","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Archbishop Justin Welby is descended from a slave owner, he reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/archbishop-of-canterbury\">Archbishop of Canterbury<\/a>\u00a0discovered recently that one of his ancestors was a slave owner, he said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/about\/meet-justin-welby\/archbishop-justins-priorities\/personal-statement-archbishop-canterbury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a statement<\/a>, Archbishop Welby revealed that his biological father, Sir Anthony Montague Browne, had an \u201cancestral connection to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/slavery\">enslavement<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;people in Jamaica and Tobago\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir Anthony was the great-great-grandson of Sir James Fergusson, the 4th Baronet of Kilkerran (1765\u20131838), who had owned slaves and received compensation when slavery was abolished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/25-october\/news\/uk\/archbishop-welby-is-descended-from-a-slave-owner-he-reveals\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Archbishop of Canterbury <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinWelby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JustinWelby<\/a> discovered recently that one of his ancestors was a slave owner, he said on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UZb561Pnir\">https:\/\/t.co\/UZb561Pnir<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1848685128605655116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury\u00a0discovered recently that one of his ancestors was a slave owner, he said on Tuesday. In&nbsp;a statement, Archbishop Welby revealed that his biological father, Sir Anthony Montague Browne, had an \u201cancestral connection to the&nbsp;enslavement&nbsp;of&nbsp;people in Jamaica and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132156\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,67,186,324,168,133,120,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132160,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132156\/revisions\/132160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}