Neither Equal Nor Servant: The Life of Betsey Stockton

Born into slavery in Princeton, New Jersey, Betsey Stockton taught herself Latin and Greek in her enslaver's library, sailed to Hawaii as the first unmarried African American woman missionary in the Pacific, opened a school for common Hawaiians who weren't supposed to need one, then taught Indigenous children in Canada and Black children in Princeton for the rest of her life. Her missionary contract described her status in language that had to be invented: neither as an equal nor as a servant, but as a humble Christian friend. Harmonia explores what it means to practice fellowship across difference without waiting for the world to be fair first. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/neither-equal-nor-servant-life-betsey-stockton Share and read comments: https://harmonia.email/podcast-comments?field_podcast_feed_value=the_golden_thread&from_node=380