[Bell Historians] Bells funded by profits from the slave trade?

[lauradi@rcn.com [bellhistorians]]

  Old North (Christ Church)  is revising some of its historic placards and talks based on new knowledge about the members in the 1740s who smuggled slaves into Suriname.  One of those, Gedney Clarke, was tied for highest donation to the fund to buy the bells (tied with Peter Faneuil, who was also involved in the slave trade, but in a more "normal" way).  They donated 100 pounds each.   There were dozens of other subscribers, but no amounts nearly that high. 
     There were already signs in the church that  included information about the enslaved and free Black people who were in the parish at the time, but more detail is being added. 
  How many other change ringing bells were paid for (at least partially) by profits from the Atlantic slave trade?  There must have been some parishes besides Christ Church Boston that had many seafaring rich people with ill-gotten money  to give. 

Laura Dickerson 

PS is anything changing with this group as Yahoo groups become less useful?
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