A stained-glass window from a shuttered Rhode Island church depicting Jesus as dark-skinned is stirring up fresh scrutiny of the role of race and gender in 19th-century New England.
A detail of a near 150-year-old stained-glass window depicts Jesus Christ speaking to a Samaritan woman, in the now-closed St. Mark's Episcopal church in Warren, Rhode Island.
"This window is unique and highly unusual," she said."I have never seen this iconography for that time." "The skin tones were nothing like the White Christ you usually see," said Arnold, who noticed the dark-skinned depiction when she had the windows removed to replace with clear glass. , which settled a disputed presidential election and effectively ended a Reconstruction-era push to guarantee formerly enslaved Black Americans full civil rights.
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