The same activists also want the City of Boston to pay roughly $15 billion in reparations.
Kevin Peterson, founder and executive director of The New Democracy Coalition, center, displays a placard showing fallen Breonna Taylor as he addresses a rally, Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Boston. The Boston People’s Reparations Commission demanded Saturday churches in the city provide Black residents with reparations, according to several local outlets.
Many of the well-known white churches in downtown Boston are connected to the slave trade and the proliferation of what was a ‘slavetocracy’ in our city,” he claimed, according to “Beginning in the 17th century, all of our colonial churches were founded on the profits of slavery,” he said, according to WHDH. “Colonial ministers were among the most likely to have enslaved servants.”for Boston to pay $15 billion for its role as the center of the New England slave trade. Approximately 12% of the city’s population was enslaved people in the early 1700s.
The New Democracy Coalition, which created the Boston People’s Reparations Commission, has previously pushed the city to recognize enslaved people’s contributions. The coalition began asking Boston to rename Faneuil Hall, an 18th-century marketplace, in 2018 due to the architect of the center’s reliance on slavery.
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