American Slavery and Christianity Part 2.

A strange sight in the 1740s-1780s. 3000 people out in a field, Blacks and whites togeather. Slave owners and Slaves, listening to a preacher who says, here my message, a new life for you, heres a chance for you. Heres a god who has your interest at heart. Heres a god who may deliver you.

The great awakening swept through America during the 1740s.. Listening to preachers, who  told of  immediate salvation. The preachers did not challenge Slavery, but they preached to everyone, Slave owner and Slave. Initially the Slave owners resisted evangelist teaching christianity to their Slaves. But as the revival movement spread a few even considered it their christian duty to teach their Slaves to read the Bible. American slaves found the Bibical message of spirtual equality before god appealing and found confort in the Biblical deliverence Slave owners allowed black preachers to preach and spread the word to their Slaves. Black Womwn took the lead in the Black Church, and were the majority of the membership. These women became leaders and exercised ther right to preach.The spread of christianity throughout the 1700, allowed the American Slave to here a Bibical message of equality and deliverence, Some Slave owners were so taken by the great awakening that they taught there Slaves to read the Bible.Now in the early 1700 you see a small unraveling of Slavery in America. The Slave became confused, on one hand he is hearing the preacher preach salvation and equality and deliverence, and then on the other hand he or she is being kept a Slave. What HYPOCRISY. While keeping  Black people in Slavery, but at the sametime the white preacher was preaching deliverence.

Teaching a slave to read was aganist the law. But some slave owners taught their slaves to read the bible. To make matters worse for the slave owner, his wife was teaching her house servants to read. The seeds of  freedom were sowed in the 1700 America The teaching of christianity to slaves was undermining American slavery.

Well we see three things comming out of the great awakening of the 1740s.

1We see seeds of freedom placed in the slaves head by the white preachers, by preachering salvation, and equality.

2 The birth of the Black Church.

3And the strong leadership role in Church of the Black women.

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