Bishop Berkeley - Baptism as coercion

In this bonus episode Kerry and Rab take a look at one if Ireland's fouler sons: George Berkeley, human rights abuser and people trafficker whose side hustles included being a philosopher, and Anglican Bishop and a lecturer at Trinity College.

 

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Primary source material

 

-Working Paper on Berkeley’s Legacies at Trinity Dr Mobeen Hussain, Dr Ciaran O’Neill and Dr Patrick Walsh | March 2023: https://www.tcd.ie/seniordean/legacies/berkeleyTLRWGworkingpaper.pdf

Travis Glasson. “‘Baptism Doth Not Bestow Freedom’: Missionary Anglicanism, Slavery, and the Yorke-Talbot Opinion, 1701-30.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 2, 2010, pp. 279–318.  (Accessed through JSTOR)

 

Secondary source material

George Berkely (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/#3.1

Episocopal Diocese Rhode Island: https://www.episcopalri.org/16871-2/

Rhode Island Slave History Medallions:  https://rishm.org/