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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Edward Elliott DuRant, pastor of Harlem's St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, visited Columbia, S.C., last weekend and praised slavery as a blessing to the Negro race in a speech to Allen University's literary societies, linking it to ancient Egyptian culture.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (ANP)—Edward Elliott DuRant pastor of Harlem's largest episcopal church, St Ambrose, visiting here last week-end, praised "slavery" as a blessing to the Negro race in America.
"Because of slavery our people have been able to pass into and through a fine civilization and regain the culture we once boasted in the days of Egyptian art and science which formed a definite part of the records of European civilization." the speaker said in an address to the literary Societies of Allen university.
Deploring the present world catastrophe which he said statesmanship, diplomacy and even science have failed to forestall Dr. DuRant declared that we are now standing on the brink of a crumbling civilization.
Dr DuRant, a native of South America, received his Bachelor's degree from the University of London his M.A. and B.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. The membership of St Ambrose Episcopal church, New York, has been built to 2000 during his pastorate.
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Edward Elliott DuRant, pastor of St Ambrose Episcopal church in Harlem, New York, visiting Columbia, S.C., praised slavery as a blessing to the Negro race, stating it allowed passage into civilization and regain of ancient Egyptian culture, in an address to the literary Societies of Allen university. He deplored the present world catastrophe and declared standing on the brink of a crumbling civilization. Dr. DuRant is a native of South America with degrees from University of London and University of Pennsylvania, and has built St Ambrose membership to 2000.