Slavery, St. Peter’s, Absalom Jones, and the Journey To Freedom
Absalom was a slave, owned by a member of St. Peter’s, who refused to grant him freedom until he was 38 years old. So telling the story of Absalom Jones necessarily means telling a story about slavery and also a story about race: a story that should leave us discomfited by our own history and by the sanitized ways that it has so often been written and told.