History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1680 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Christianity Reinterpreted
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The idea
Many enslaved people embraced Christianity and reinterpreted the slaveholders' emphasis on obedience and heavenly reward.
In practice
Methodist and Baptist emotional worship drawing enslaved congregants and producing enslaved preachers.
Where people slip
Spirituals on the biblical Exodus carried freedom messages, and Roll, Jordan, Roll made the river a path out.
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