That the 75th General Convention of the Episcopal Church (2006), affirming our commitments to become a transformed, anti-racist church and to work toward healing, reconciliation, and a restoration of wholeness to the family of God, urge the Church at every level to call upon Congress and the American people to support legislation initiating study of and dialogue about the history and legacy of slavery in the United States and of proposals for monetary and non-monetary reparations to the descendants of the victims of slavery.
You can read more on this here:
https://episcopalmaryland.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/06/Reparations-Letter-Appendix-D.pdf
The story of Episcopalians giving testimony for HR 40:
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2019/06/20/episcopalians-testify-in-support-of-bill-h-r-40-in-house-judiciary-subcommittee-hearing-on-juneteenth/
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/pressreleases/maryland-bishop-to-testify-on-reparations-before-house-subcommittee-wednesday/
Work done by Episcopalians in Maryland:
https://marylandepiscopalian.org/2019/06/17/resolution-on-racial-reconciliations-passes-unanimously-at-235th-diocesan-convention/
To watch clips of the hearing:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?461767-1/house-judiciary-subcommittee-examines-case-slavery-reparations
Transcripts:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/06/ta-nehisi-coates-testimony-house-reparations-hr-40/592042/
http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/testimony/
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