Jacobus Capitein: Speaking in Defence of Slavery - Professor Alec Ryrie
Alec Ryrie
3.17
20 November 2015
19 November 2025
“We can dismiss many of these defenders of Slavery as self-justifying hypocrites… but not all of them.” Professor Alec Ryrie discusses the unique case of Jacobus Capitein, the first African to be ordained a protestant minister who wrote a defence of slavery.
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