Two Hundred and Sixty-Seven BEACON Ⅱ: The Color of Original Sin

Boston South End, Mary Daya Chapel.

This modest community chapel is named after a great woman who was hanged on Boston Common in 1660.

People don't remember exactly why she died, but they clearly know why she was great.

Her famous saying "Compared with the pursuit of truth, my life is insignificant" is well-known in Boston, and has already crossed time and become one of the historical landmarks of Bostonians' struggle for freedom.

It is also because of this that the locals borrowed her name when they built the community chapel.

Even in the era when Ms. Daya lived, the southern district was still a silt beach.

Even if Ms. Daya may be pursuing something else, she should not think about whether slaves also have the right to pursue freedom.

However, to make slaves feel free is exactly the original intention of the establishment of the Mary Daya Chapel.

The South Side of Boston is often referred to as the New District and the Manufacturing District by Bostonians.

The area here is three times that of the North District, and there are contiguous new-style steam workshops on the land. It was once the most developed manufacturing center in New England.

After Boston became independent, it became one of the most developed manufacturing bases in the nascent United States.

Daily necessities, hardware, clothing, and even guns, countless raw materials come here through sea and land transportation, are turned into finished products under the dense steam, and are transported to every corner of the world by merchant ships moored along the entire coastline.

At the end of the 18th century, the pyramid ecology of American factories was actually very interesting.

Skilled and educated whites act as managers and foremen, occupying the top of the pyramid alone, followed by the shabby households and child laborers that make up the backbone, and at the bottom, and at the same time the most, are the slaves collected by the operators through various channels them.

Blacks, whites, Indians... Occasionally there are natives from Asia and oriental visitors who think they are traveling for gold.

After all, industry is a much more complex production behavior than agriculture, and has higher requirements for producers.

Operators collected slaves to reduce labor costs, but after a period of exploration, they gradually found that the plantation-style management model could not save their costs.

The main reason is that workers generally lack subjective initiative.

Workers who lack motivation learn ineffectively and become excruciatingly slow to become proficient.

What a foreman can do requires five shabby households, what a shabby household can do requires three child laborers, what a child laborer can do requires two orientals, and what an orientaler can do requires three white slaves, or five colored slaves, or twenty Asian natives...

The slaves worked in the workshop with their numb eyes open, and could not see much output in a day, but they would never forget their hunger because of this.

They eat more than anyone else.

Even if the food is only black bread baked from wood chips and earth, the gentlemen who wanted to save money and get rich began to feel overwhelmed.

This situation is bound to change.

The gentlemen gathered together to discuss and discovered the problem as quickly as possible.

Compared with foremen, slaves are uneducated.

Compared with shabby households, slaves lack freedom.

Compared with child labor, slaves lack honor.

Compared with Orientals...the slaves lack nothing, on the contrary, they seem to know too much...

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Since upbringing is bestowed by God, and knowledge cannot be completely erased, what slaves lack is freedom and honor.

Slaves must be given freedom and glory, and by the mercy of the Lord, all men are created equal!

Gentlemen act.

They organized a committee to review the contract of prostitution, and first picked out the evil clauses in the contract that hindered equality, such as wearing shackles to work, not being allowed to have children, not being allowed to choose, food and housing, etc., to give slaves full attention and liberation.

Immediately afterwards, based on the wages and benefits of child labor, the committee added a reasonable and generous wage return to the new contract.

You only need to work 16 hours a day, and the daily salary is at least two pence. The workshop has the obligation to take care of the lunch unconditionally.

Even in order to supervise itself, the committee also prepared to establish a Southern District United Trade Union composed entirely of foremen to fight for the rights and interests of the slaves and build a solid and powerful backstage for them.

The slaves were thus freed!

Although theoretically speaking, no one has radically proposed the abolition of slavery so far, but in fact, the slave owners in the southern district have given up everything except life and death.

The new bond of slavery is no different from that of a free man.

As long as they work in the workshop, the slaves can freely choose where to live, freely decide the ingredients for dinner, freely breed and graze, freely fall in love and marry, and freely inherit the sacred property to their offspring.

Even if they avoid their nominal masters far away and go to work in other gentlemen's workshops, their masters will have nothing to do with them.

Once freedom is granted, it will naturally begin to exude a refreshing fragrance.

The worker community is also a product of this fragrance.

The gentlemen needed to let the slaves see the value of the change as soon as possible, and the United Trade Union was instructed to quickly select some obedient blacks or Indians to help them achieve self-reliance in the form of rewards or loans.

They quickly became a successful example of the early days of slave emancipation. They gathered in the corners and open spaces of the South District to build a new community of workers, pursuing higher needs than basic survival, such as faith.

This is what the community house of worship is all about.

But priests have to eat.

After all, the time is short, and even the successful people among the slaves can hardly come up with wealth more precious than strength, so pure community chapels are different from churches all over the city. Believers have no reason to support themselves other than to support themselves. Others.

As a result, the quality of priests has declined rapidly. Within a month of construction, they have been personally appointed by the bishop of the area, and have been reduced to an embarrassing situation where everyone with lofty ideals participates.

These days, a mysterious missionary came to the Mary Daya Chapel. He wore a hooded cloak and an iron mask on his face, so that he did not reveal any skin.

He would come to the chapel every week, bring exquisite and delicious communion, and gently and passionately preach some special teachings of the Lord among the workers.

"Color, people are born with their own colors. Black, white, yellow, brown... Colorful colors make up a colorful world. Each color is bestowed by God, and each color should have the same weight."

"But someone has arbitrarily assigned a grade to the colors. God is white, the saints are white, Adam is white, all noble is white..."

"White is original sin! Once color becomes a reason to be enslaved and enslaved, color becomes original sin!"

"Why are some colors born inferior? Why aren't some colors allowed to fight for their rights? Why does fighting turn into infidelity? Why does it take life to survive?"

"White is the original sin! If it is not white, then it is the original sin to be born not white!"

The missionary took a deep breath.

"Okay, today we will talk about the Gospel of Matthew, let us praise the Lord's benevolence..."

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