Many of the enslaved and their descendants would ultimately be motivated and uplifted by a faith that had been used to oppress.
A cross is seen at Historic Jamestowne in Williamsburg, Va. By Julie Zauzmer Julie Zauzmer Reporter covering religion, faith and spirituality Email Bio Follow April 30 at 11:34 AM When the Rev. Jaymes Robert Moody takes his pulpit to preach, sometimes he pictures the graveyard — that is where his congregation was born.
“That’s the history of the black church,” said Moody, who at 29 leads a congregation of 2,000 members that will celebrate 200 years in existence next year. Early on, many slaveholders were not concerned with the spiritual well-being of Africans. But few had qualms about using Christianity to justify slavery.
“That biblical interpretation is made up of whole cloth in the 15th century,” Noll said. “There’s just no historical record of any seriousness to back it up. It’s made up, at a time when Europeans are beginning to colonize Africa.”Abolitionists tried to make arguments against using the Bible to justify slavery, but they were in the minority.
Those books and broadsides challenging prevailing biblical interpretations were savvy: “They very quickly learned that the only way we can be heard is to speak the language of our slaveholders, to speak to them about the text that they love, that they believe in,” Pierce said. “More than anything, this challenged them the most: The challenge of believing in a God that at the time was used to intend to pacify, but still believing in the God that could provide freedom,” Moody said.
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