Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies
Center Church, First Church of Christ UCC of Hartford, CT
Fred & Elizabeth Boyajian Lecture Series "Lest We Forget"
African Colonization vs. Abolition
Two Perspectives on Ending Chattel Slavery in the United States Prior to the United States Civil War
Featuring Lawrence Anglin and Dr. Andrew Gardner
Thursday, April 13, 2023 • 7PM EST • Virtual Event
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African Colonization vs. Abolition
Two Perspectives on Ending Chattel Slavery in the United States Prior to the United States Civil War
Join Center Church for the first of its Spring 2023 Fred & Elizabeth Boyajian Lectures "Lest We Forget": The Colonization vs Abolition Debate: Two Considerations in the Struggle to End Chattel Slavery Prior to the US Civil War. Lecturers – Dr. Andrew Gardner, Baylor University and Lawrence Anglin, Ph.D. Student, Princeton Theological Seminary.
The Colonization and Abolitionist Movements: Center Church was at the crossroads of these two perspectives and theologically informed movements in the middle of the 19th century. The Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, a decades-long member of Center Church, was the Secretary of the Connecticut Colonization Society and a fierce champion of African Colonization. The Rev. Joel Hawes, Center Church's pastor between 1818 - 1864, was an abolitionist and a member of the Connecticut Anti-Slavery Society. One can assume their respective opinions and commitments to these causes may have come into conflict while both were associated with the church.
The lecture is free and virtual, and registration is required. Please direct questions about the Fred & Elizabeth Boyajian Lecture Series "Lest We Forget" to Eric J. Hearst, Ed.D. Coordinator of Justice and Faith Formation Ministries via email: ehearst@cchartford.org.
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Lawrence Anglin is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. His current research centers on the intersection of the Black Atlantic, Early Modern Atlantic slavery, and Western Christianity. Other areas of interest include the histories of the African diaspora, Christian theology, labor, economics, and political theory.
Andrew Gardner is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Baylor University and was recently appointed to Lecturer in Religious Studies at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia. He formerly served as a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research from 2020-2022. He is the author of Binkley: A Congregational History, which will come out with the University of Tennessee Press this year.
Hosts
Rev. Dr. David G. Latimore serves as the Director for the Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. The Betsey Stockton Center brings the exceptional strengths and resources of the seminary to support the prophetic and social justice traditions of the black church. The Center also serves to advance, and be transformed by, theological education that develops and nurtures current and future leaders of black religious institutions and to be a national leader in creating knowledge that addresses, in new and innovative ways, the theological and praxiological issues confronting the communities and constituencies served by the black church.
Rev. Dr. Latimore has over twenty years of pastoral experience. He most recently served as the sixth Senior Pastor of the Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. He has also served as Senior Pastor at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Joliet, IL), the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church (Gainesville, FL), the Southern Union Baptist Church (St. Louis, MO), and has also served the First Calvary Baptist Church (Durham, NC) as Senior Associate Minister. Rev. Dr. Latimore was licensed into ministry by Bishop Paul S. Morton at Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church (New Orleans, LA).
Eric J. Hearst has served as the inaugural Coordinator of Justice and Faith Formation Ministries at the First Church of Christ in Hartford/Center Church since September 2021. He is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and previously lived in that state as well as Maryland, New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Dr. Hearst considers himself a life-long learner and has completed degrees in the fields of education, social work, and theology. He is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC (Bachelor of Science; Master of Social Work), Argosy University (Doctor of Education), and Princeton Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity/Master of Arts). Dr. Hearst has worked as a social worker in public and private school systems in the National Capital Region of the United States, serving students and families with distinction. He has also served churches in administrative and pastoral capacities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Flemington, New Jersey and South River, New Jersey. Dr. Hearst recently completed a Chaplain Residency program at Penn Medicine Princeton Health in Plainsboro, New Jersey, a component of the University of Pennsylvania Health Care System before relocating to New England. He is currently completing additional theological training in interreligious studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace (formerly Hartford Seminary).
Schedule
All times are Eastern Time
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Time (ET)
Session
Speaker
7:00PM ET
Opening
Dr. David Latimore
7:05PM ET
Welcome, Overview, and Introduction of Speakers
Dr. Eric Hearst
7:10PM ET
Lectures
Lawrence Anglin and Dr. Andrew Gardner
8:25PM ET
Small Group Discussions
8:40PM ET
Q&A
Lawrence Anglin, Dr. Andrew Gardner, and Dr. Eric Hearst
8:55PM ET
Closing Remarks
Dr. Eric Hearst
9:00PM ET
Airmeet Social Lounge
Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies
The Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies exists to highlight the theological and religious witness, which arises out of the African American and African Diaspora Christian experience. The Center helps to prepare men and women for vocational ministry or scholarly pursuits shaped by a wider knowledge and deeper appreciation of Black life within American and global Christianity.
The Betsey Stockton Center aspires to be a national leader in research on the Black church through the collaborative creation of scholarship with leading scholars, community leaders, and pastors to address the critical issues confronting clergy, congregants, and communities served by the Black church.