Southern churches and slaveholding plantations were established together by the same families

Evidence

Denise explained that Antioch was a mixed church until the Civil War, after which the white members left. This history aligned with what Dr. Taylor had told me over lunch, and I was not surprised to learn that while he reveled in the fact that his family helped establish so many churches, he did not boast that he also came from one of the largest slaveholding families in the United States as plantations and work farms were established alongside these churches. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 529

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• XREF: Connects to the grief-dignity theme central to this reader’s interest and to the earlier treatment in the book about honoring enslaved ancestors’ burial grounds. — connects to: Southern Baptist Seminary was built almost entirely on slave-labor wealth — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 106