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Halloween: it is an abbreviation, of sorts, for All Hallows Eve, or All Saints Day. November 1, a day on which the church encourages us to remember all the saints, not just the “official” ones with “Saint” days that everyone knows, like Valentine and Patrick. There are other saints, that is, holy people, who are …

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The first enslaved Africans on the English North American mainline arrived in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia. They were from Angola, and were stolen from a slave ship in the Gulf of Mexico by a group of “privateers,” more commonly known as pirates. Twenty to thirty of these people were bought from those pirates in 1619 …

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