HISTORY TOPIC Pick a form of Slavery or Servitude talked about in class and trac
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HISTORY TOPIC
Pick a form of Slavery or Servitude talked about in class and trace its origins. You can choose anything from the Ancient or Modern Slavery, Caribbean’s, and British North America. You can specify your paper, for example you can research, Slavery and Religion, or Slavery and Gender. Talk about slavery impacted on your topic area, the type of slavery, how slavery changed orremained the same over time, and harshness or lack of harshness of slavery. (minimum 5 fall pages with double spaced).
Explanation / Answer
African American religious cultures were born in the crucible of American slavery, a system that not only ruptured direct connections to African history, culture, and religious community, but also set the context for the emergence of transformed and new religious systems. Africans brought forcibly to the Americas came from a variety of cultural, linguistic, and religious environments in West and West Central Africa. Religion played a deep role in the lives of Slaves during the start of the 1740’s. It brought blacks and whites together to share their religion and join together in worshiping God. Religious Revival began in 1740 called the Great Awakening which swept through the North and South all through the 1780’s. The Great Awakening Revival did not generally challenge slavery, but was able to get people from both races to join together and enjoy their religion. Slave owners resisted evangelicals preaching to their bond people, but as the revival movement spread, a few came to consider their Christian duty to teach their slaves they owned about the Bible. The new generation of African Americans started new churches. Religion played a role in getting the idea that slavery had to end and was an evil thing that would not work with Christianity. It brought both races together to worship and accept the other side as real Americans. New generations of African Americans used their new found religion and built churches for future African Americans. Great Awakening was a long needed revival to bring Whites and Blacks together and understand each other. A number of significant trends that began at the end of the 20th century continue to shape religious life for people of African descent in the United States in the 21st century. The American religious landscape has been greatly influenced by increased immigration from Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, which followed U.S. immigration reforms in 1965.
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