Part II. From Christianity to Black Religion

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This research paper will examine the works of such scholarly authors as Louis Ruchames, John Henry Hopkins, James W. C. Pennington, Samuel G. Morton, Louis Agassiz, Audrey Smedley, Wilson Moses and others about their views on race, slavery and religion. This paper will use the ideas from the Bible and the views of other authors to trace the origin of blacks, the ideas of slavery, and how slavery and Christianity amalgamate to form different views of the slavery institution. Then, it will discover how Christianity became the basis of black religion. Furthermore, this paper will help to understand what race is, why race began and what different authors thought about the black race. It will also examine how the views of race affected society and the ideas of religion to this day. Although race is considered, a fiction with no scientific basis, many scholars hav

During the time of slavery, Blacks were looking for a way out, a way to cope with the atrocities that they faced on a daily basis. They tried to figure out the best ways to get along with their masters or even the best way to get out of their current situations. Some slaves came up with the idea of staying a slave and obeying their master and others thought that freedom was much better than slavery. Either way the slaves needed a to see that positive aspect in the dark cloud and religion seemed to be the only way. Slaves had already come over to America with their own beliefs and ideas of worship. However, many of them had not been able to practice their rituals. So naturally, they began to create new rituals that they could share with the other slaves. Many of them sang songs, others would find a place to meet and practice their rituals in private. Before long, the slaves began to conform to what they would observe and that was the religion of their masters. This is when Christianity started to become apart of the lives of the slaves. Christianity was very popular among the white population and soon became popular throughout the black population as well. “America had [the] right to call itself a Christian nation, [because] it is the first nation that was born with the Bible in its hands” (Sernett, 339). Once the slaves were exposed to the religion of Christianity and the Christian rituals, they began to form something similar to the religion of their homeland and the Christian religion combined.

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