Working the Diaspora by Knight Frederick;

Author:Knight, Frederick;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

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Natural Worship

Slavery, the Environment, and Black Consciousness in the Antebellum South

First, we must realize that no such institution as the Negro church could rear itself without definite historical foundations. These foundations we can find if we remember that the social history of the Negro did not start in America. He was brought from a definite social environment,—the polygamous clan life under the headship of the chief and the potent influence of the priest. His religion was nature-worship, with profound belief in invisible surrounding influences, good and bad, and his worship was through incantation and sacrifice.

—W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

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