Mary Daya chapel, Boston south.
This is a simple community chapel named after a great woman who was hanged in Boston Park in 1660.
People don''t remember 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. It has already crossed the time and has become one of the historical landmarks of Boston''s struggle for freedom.
It is precisely because of this that locals borrow her name when building community chapels.
Even in the era of Ms. Daiya''s existence, the Southern District was still a sandy beach.
Even if Ms. Daiya is likely to pursue something else, she should not think about whether slaves have the right to pursue freedom.
However, it was the original intention of Mary Daya chapel to let slaves feel freedom.
Boston''s southern district is often called a new area and manufacturing area by Boston.
The area here is three times that of the northern district. There are many new steam workshops on the land. It was once the most developed manufacturing center in New England.
After Boston''s independence, it became one of the most developed manufacturing bases in the new United States.
Countless raw materials for daily use, hardware, clothing, and even guns come here through sea and land transportation, turn into finished products under the dense steam, and are transported to the corners of the world through merchant ships moored all over the 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 broken settlements and child labor, which constitute the backbone. At the bottom, but also the most, are slaves collected by operators through various channels.
Blacks, whites, Indians... Occasionally, there are indigenous people from Asia and Oriental visitors who think they are drifting for gold.
After all, industry is a much more complex production behavior than agriculture, and has higher requirements for producers.
Operators collect slaves to reduce labor costs, but after a period of exploration, they increasingly find that the plantation management model can not save their costs.
The main reason is that workers generally lack subjective initiative.
The workers who lack subjective initiative have low learning efficiency and the speed of skilled skills is appalling.
What a foreman can do requires five broken settlements, what a broken settlement can do requires three child workers, what a child worker can do requires two oriental guests, and what an oriental guest can do requires three white slaves, or five colored slaves, or 20 Asian aborigines
The slaves worked in the workshop with numb eyes. They could not see much output a day, but they would never forget hunger.
They eat more than anyone else.
Even if the food was just black bread baked from sawdust and soil, the gentlemen who wanted to save money began to feel overwhelmed.
This situation is bound to change.
The gentlemen gathered together to discuss and found the problem as quickly as possible.
Compared with the foreman, slaves were ill bred.
Slaves lack freedom compared with broken settlements.
Compared with child labor, slaves lack honor.
Compared with the easterners... Slaves lack nothing. On the contrary, they seem to know too much
Brainstorming was a good thing, and the key to preventing slaves from creating wealth was immediately revealed.
Since education is given by God and it is impossible to erase the knowledge fundamentally, what slaves lack is freedom and honor.
Slaves must be given freedom and glory. Under the mercy of the Lord, all people are born equal!
Gentlemen, move.
They organized a committee to review the deed of betrayal. First, they singled out the evil provisions in the contract that hindered equality, such as wearing shackles, working, no childbearing, no choice, eating and housing, and gave full attention and liberation to the slaves.
Then, the Committee added a reasonable and good return on wages to the new contract on the basis of the wages and benefits of child workers.
It only needs to work 16 hours a day, the minimum salary is 2p a day, and the workshop has the obligation to take care of lunch unconditionally.
Even in order to supervise itself, the committee also prepared to establish a Southern District United trade union composed of foremen to fight for the rights and interests of slaves and build a solid and powerful background for them.
So the slaves were liberated!
Although in theory, no one has proposed the abolition of slavery, in fact, the slave owners in the Southern District have given up everything except life and death.
The new slave contract is no different from a free man.
As long as they worked in the workshop, slaves were free to choose their residence, freely decide the ingredients for dinner, freely breed and graze, freely love and combine, and freely inherit the sacred property to future generations.
Even if they go far away from their nominal masters and work in the workshops of other gentlemen, their masters have nothing to do with them.
Once freedom is given, it naturally begins to exude refreshing fragrance.
Workers'' community is also the product of this fragrance.
Gentlemen need to let slaves see the value of change as soon as possible. The instructed union quickly selects some obedient blacks or Indians to help them achieve self-reliance in the form of reward or loan.
They soon became successful models in the early stage of slave liberation, gathered in the corners and open spaces of the Southern District, built a new worker community, and pursued higher needs than basic survival, such as faith.
This is the meaning of community chapels.
But priests eat.
After all, the time is still short, and even the successful people in slaves can hardly produce more valuable wealth than strength. Therefore, pure community churches are different from churches all over the city. Believers have no reason to support others except to support themselves.
As a result, the quality of priests has declined rapidly. In less than a month, they have been personally assigned by regional bishops to the embarrassing situation of everyone with lofty ideals.
These days, a mysterious missionary came to Mary Daya''s chapel. He was wearing a hooded cloak and an iron face.
He would come to the chapel every week, with exquisite and delicious Eucharist, gently and passionately preaching the slightly special doctrine of the LORD among the workers.
"Color is born with its own color. Black, white, yellow, brown... Colorful colors constitute a colorful world. Each color is given by God, and each color should have the same weight."
"But some people set a grade for color without authorization. God is white, saints are white, Adam is white, and all nobility is white..."
"White is the original sin! Once color becomes the reason for slavery and being enslaved, color becomes the original sin!"
"Why are some colors born inferior? Why are some colors not allowed to fight for their rights? Why does the struggle turn into infidelity in the end? Why does it take life to live?"
"White is the original sin! If white is not, then living instead of white becomes the original sin!"
The preacher took a deep breath.
"Well, today we talk about the gospel of Matthew. Let''s praise the goodness of the Lord..."