Bishop Berkeley - Baptism as coercion
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In this bonus episode Kerry and Rab take a look at one if Ireland's fouler sons: George Berkeley, human rights abuser and people trafficker whose side hustles included being a philosopher, and Anglican Bishop and a lecturer at Trinity College.
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Music: Achaidh Cheide by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Primary source material
-Working Paper on Berkeley’s Legacies at Trinity
Dr Mobeen Hussain, Dr Ciaran O’Neill and Dr Patrick Walsh | March 2023: https://www.tcd.ie/seniordean/legacies/berkeleyTLRWGworkingpaper.pdf
Travis Glasson. “‘Baptism Doth Not Bestow Freedom’: Missionary Anglicanism, Slavery, and the Yorke-Talbot Opinion, 1701-30.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 2, 2010, pp. 279–318. (Accessed through JSTOR)
Secondary source material
George Berkely (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/#3.1
Episocopal Diocese Rhode Island: https://www.episcopalri.org/16871-2/
Rhode Island Slave History Medallions: https://rishm.org/
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