I need to find information, on how did black slaves, praise God in slavery days.?

Question

My church is celebrating black history month with a 3 day program. I need to find out some information on the churches they had access to and the ones that didn't have access to. what did they do when they were not allowed to worship. How did they continue to praise God through the years.

Answer 1

No.

Answer 2

I am not black and I am not even from America. So I cannot give you accurate information on the subject.

Nevertheless, over the centuries, millions of people went through persecutions, murder, slavery and still continues to pray for god and hoping for some change. The first the best example is Job (Book of Job. Other good example is the holocaust victims in the Nazi concentration camp.

I assume very similarly, the black slaves brought to America continues to believe and pray that one day they or they children or they children's children will be free.

Answer 3

Most slave owners did not allow their slaves to attend church or to read the bible...most slaves were kept illiterate for that very reason. Those churches that did allow slaves in usually had a serperate balcony for the slaves to sit in and they only spoke about the parts of the bible that talked about obedience and love for one's superiors. Sometimes the slave owners would have one of their slaves or a traveling black preacher speak to their slaves about the bible, but again it was not the whole bible. I'm sure you can find a lot on this topic with doing a few general searches on the internet. Also reading black poetry and essay's of the time would give you an interesting glimpse into the beliefs of slaves...but be aware many of the slaves were writing on their master's wishes and are overly kind about the church and their masters.
Good Luck!

Answer 4

Let us begin with the fact that Africans were not Christians when they were dragged to the new world in chains - so the first generation or two had to be forcibly indoctrinated into the ways of Christianity by the white owners, etc.
Thereafter, I imagine they were allowed little shacks in which to worship, or were allowed to sit outside white men's churches during services.
White owners were terrible in many ways, but I do think they encouraged the Christianization of black slaves.

Answer 5

Happy New Years: Blacks most likely praised GOD ALMIGHTY the same way that the white slaves did.. Please know there were both black and white slaves..The white slaves were poor whites who were called indentured servants..People do not have to be in a Church building in order to Praise God Almighty..Praising God Almighty comes from the heart..There is also different types of slavery, that is still going on in this day and time..For example..A person can be a slave to satan unknowingly by purposing to hurt others through words and deeds..There are black and non black christians..Just like there are black and non black atheists..I don't believe talking about slavery is a celebration statement for black history month..Its as if someone was celebrating you and decided to draw on your short comings in life..Each and everyone of us as christians, have experienced trying times and persecution..AND..(We all know None of us is perfect).. Jesus is the only perfect person that ever lived..Jesus said, Unless our righteousness exceed the righteousnous of the scribes and pharisess, we will not enter heavens doors..Black christians just like other nationalities of christians has always found ways to gather together amongst themselves to PRAISE THE GREAT HEAVENLY FATHER..There were black, white and different nationalities of believers from the beginning of time..There is going to be black, white, mexican, chinese etc., and different nationality of believers with God after Judgement day..Lets all Praise God together, and work on helping those that don't know Jesus to know him..A good black history celebration is When Dr Martin Luther King spoke on seeing all nations of people coming together and Praising God..Another Celebration is when the Blacks, whites and different nationality of believers of Jerusalem Praised God together before the slavery days.. and before Jesus came down to earth to save mankind from sin..

Answer 6

You very last truth is a lie. you actually about had something there. right here's the truth. Slavery isn't condemned contained in the Bible. this is been condemned contained in america by Christians. Hebrew slaves were slightly diverse then the African slaves that were extra to Europe and america. Hebrew slavery change into not an complete life gig. It change into used to pay off debt and they were finally released. The African slave commerce change into terrible. It change into Christians like William Wilberforce who spearheaded the anti slave commerce move and Christians right here that were significant gamers in abolishing slavery and the civil rights move. Dr King change right into a Baptist Minister. i'm particular you're merely trolling yet in case you easily care. There are nevertheless slaves in Sudan. Christian slaves to Muslim masters.

Answer 7

I was offended when I was handed a similar project about "black" baptists

I thought for sure I had just discovered my church was a racist group of bigots stuck in Texas somewhere

come to find out there is quite a history about freed slaves, immigrants in Galveston and Houston

I don't view religion by color of skin, but view it rather by culture

someone from my religion joined Martin Luther King in one of the first marches of protest and died, becoming the first UU Minister to die of many in the Civil Rights Movement

turns out the slaves may have been freed, but many people didn't agree and did thier best to resist

even women to this day are still slaves to religion and cultural ways, and so much more

I think they praised god by combining the Santoria, Christianity and Egyptian influenced beliefs into what became "black baptist", much like Mexico people embraced Catholicism and old ways to make thier own branch of religion that lives today largely unchanged, unlike many others.

in their own way, by adapting they survived and kept thier traditions

Answer 8

You can visit websites such as blackhistory.com

Black slaves embraced Christianity because it held the promise of a better life in paradise after this life of slavery was done. Slaves sang of the promise while working in the fields. These songs were called "***** Spirituals".

Answer 9

They sang. Dont even think of looking into churches that they did not create on their own. Jeeze the mormon church would not let an African American thru its doors until they were going to be taxed by the govt. Then all the sudden the living prophet said it was ok. Grrr!

Answer 10

The biggest way they did was to sing while they worked - and what a testament to the rest of us! In the midst of terrible work and bad circumstances, they sang praises to God.
They also had house churches they went to on Sunday (churches that met right in their quarters).

Answer 11

They weren't allowed to read and they weren't allowed to attend church. Their ancestors had been taken from countries in which they did not worship God. My thinking is that perhaps they didn't praise God.