The controversial effort was overwhelmingly rejected by Black people in America, leading many former supporters to become abolitionists instead. The DeWolf family made a fortune as one of the nation’s leading slave-trading families Gibbs married a sea captain who worked for the DeWolfs.īoth women had been listed as donors to the American Colonization Society, founded to support the migration of freed slaves to Liberia in Africa.
DeWolf were sisters, and both married into families involved in the slave trade. Carr, apparently in honor of her late aunts, whose names appear on the glass, Arnold said. The window was commissioned by a woman named Mary P. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Martin de Porres Center, which provides services to older residents. She now runs the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence’s St. “To me, being of African American and Native American heritage, I think that it could represent both people,” said Linda A’Vant-Deishinni, the former executive director of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society. Others think it’s open to interpretation. The piece shows some signs of aging but remains in very good condition, she said.īut does it depict a Black Jesus? Arnold doesn’t feel comfortable using that term, preferring to say that it depicts Christ as a person of color, probably Middle Eastern, which she says would make sense, given where the Galilean Jewish preacher, whom Christians regard as the Messiah, was from. Raguin and other experts confirmed that the skin tones - in black and brown paint on milky white glass that was fired in an oven to set the image - were original and deliberate.
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