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Albert j raboteau6/23/2023 ![]() As resolution to their conflict with white Christianity, slaves began in the late 18th century to form their own separate churches, ultimately breaking away from the white denominations they had first known. ![]() The author convincingly argues that black people's social and political lives were inextricably bound to their religious life until well into the 20th century. At the same time, the author shows slaveholders grappling with the conflict between their own Christian imperatives and the economic necessity of slavery. Part I offers a thorough, but by no means boring, history of how Christianity was presented to and propagated among the slaves. ![]() Slave Religion, 1978) traces African-Americans' development of their own religious and moral values as they founded churches and institutions through which they could exercise these values. A well-researched look at black Americans and religion, dispelling the notion that the slaves accepted their masters' beliefs without question. ![]()
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