Chris Walton shows us the Memorial to Enslaved Persons outside King’s Chapel on Tremont Street, to honor the 219 men, women and children enslaved by the church’s early ministers and parishioners.
The church says the statue, by Harmonia Rosales, marks “an important step in our ongoing commitment to reflection, healing, and reparative justice” and adds:
We know that our church, a national landmark, was built with wealth generated by enslaved human beings, and that while we honor an important abolitionist with a memorial in the church, there are also monuments in our church that commemorate enslavers…