Browse my Twitter thread of +100 slaveholding New England ministers here:

1. Cotton Mather – The first tweet in my #ordainedslavery thread is a layup. Mather's Boston congregation liked him so much that they bought him a slave. Read how that enslaved man, Onesimus, introduced Boston to smallpox inoculation: https://t.co/jWAItTKV6W

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