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Southern Baptist seminary slavery plaque criticized as being ‘hidden’

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary erected this plaque to try to make amends for the fact all four of its founders were slave-owners. Black pastors today charge that it is inadequate; one calls it "pathetic" and "hidden"

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, was based 164 years in the past by 4 males who all owned enslaved individuals.

However in contrast to different establishments of upper schooling, together with Columbia College and the College of Cincinnati, which eliminated the names of slaveowners from its campus buildings, Southern’s president, R. Albert Mohler Jr., has refused to do the identical.

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