Bishop Berkeley - Baptism as coercion

In this bonus episode Kerry and Rab take a look at one if Ireland's fouler sons: George Berkeley, human rights abuser and people trafficker whose side hustles included being a philosopher, and Anglican Bishop and a lecturer at Trinity College.   - - - - - Hosted by Kerry Graham and Rab Fulton, this offshoot of the world famous Celtic Tales storytelling show takes a deep dive into all the weird, wild and wonderful stories that can be found along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Coastline. Subscribe now on your favourite app. Follow Rab on instagram @celtictalesgalway Follow @TheKerryGraham on instagram and Substack.  Follow the show on tiktok @celtictaleschronicles Tickets to the Celtic Tales storytelling show from https://ie.powertik.com/events/celtic-tales-storytelling-show Buy Rab’s books at https://ko-fi.com/celtictalesgalway/shop Music: Achaidh Cheide by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Primary source material   -Working Paper on Berkeley’s Legacies at Trinity Dr Mobeen Hussain, Dr Ciaran O’Neill and Dr Patrick Walsh | March 2023: https://www.tcd.ie/seniordean/legacies/berkeleyTLRWGworkingpaper.pdf Travis Glasson. “‘Baptism Doth Not Bestow Freedom’: Missionary Anglicanism, Slavery, and the Yorke-Talbot Opinion, 1701-30.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 2, 2010, pp. 279–318.  (Accessed through JSTOR)   Secondary source material George Berkely (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/#3.1 Episocopal Diocese Rhode Island: https://www.episcopalri.org/16871-2/ Rhode Island Slave History Medallions:  https://rishm.org/