A9 - A Call for Reparations

​In 2006 the 75th General Convention adopted the resolution A123 "Slavery and Racial Reconciliation" with the call for every diocese to document "(a) the complicity of The Episcopal Church in the institution of slavery and in the subsequent history of segregation and discrimination and (b) the economic benefits The Episcopal Church derived from the institution of slavery." Reparations while not named explicitly are implied in this resolution. Therefore this workshop will focus on the long term work of repentance, reconciliation and repair, the three key parts of reparations. Included in this workshop will be a report on the Third National Symposium for State and Local Reparations held in Evanston, Illinois in late November 2023 and case studies on reparations from two dioceses of our church. 
 
 
Presenters:
Newland Smith, Historiographer, Chicago
Brian Wilbert, Archivist, Diocese of Ohio