Consider - Why did slaves adopt the faith of masters?
Kevin Johnson, a black Presbyterian pastor in Detroit, tells me that his youth report that Black Muslims recruit them by asking, “What have white Christians ever done for you?” A somewhat related question is this: Why did African slaves and their descendants adopt the religion of their slave masters? Today we explore this question, noting African Americans saw dimensions of the gospel that their slave masters overlooked. Far from being “the opium of masses” (as Marx said), supporting learned helplessness and quietism, Christianity nurtured a deeply subversive sense of self-worth and the hope for justice and freedom.
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