Free Church of Scotland under fire for failure to apologise over slavery money
by Severin Carrell Scotland editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6N0RA)
Church statement expressing regret' that members took money from plantation owners in 1844 condemned as shameful'
The Free Church of Scotland has been accused of shameful" behaviour after it refused to apologise for receiving money from slavery worth millions of pounds today.
The Free Church is known to have accepted donations from plantation owners in the southern US states soon after its foundation in 1843 and then a significant bequest from a wealthy Glaswegian sugar baron 10 years later.
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