“… Black religion began in Africa, was mixed with European Christianity in the Caribbean and in Latin America, and was further molded by, and recoiled from, American evangelical Protestantism on the slave plantations of the South and among the tiny communities of free blacks in the North…” “… It is this radical thrust of blacks for human liberation expressed in theological terms and religious institutions that is the defining characteristic of black Christianity and black religion in the United States—from the preacher-led slave revolts to the Black Manifesto of James Forman and the Black Declaration of Independence of the National Committee of Black Churchmen.” “… One of the continuing paradoxes of the black church as the custodian of a great portion of black culture and religion is that it is at once the most reactionary and the most radical of black institutions; the most imbued with the mythology and values of white America, and yet the most proud, the most independent and indigenous collectivity in the black community… Black pride and power, black nationalism and pan-Africanism have had no past without the black church and black religion, and without them they may well have no enduring future.” Gayraud S. Wilmore “Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of Afro-American People” Page x
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