The Origin of African American Christianity in the English North American Colonies to the Rise of the Black Independent Church
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Christianity has played a major role in African American lives from Africa to the North American Colonies.African Americans have had an important presence in both the Old and New Testaments of the bible.From a black woman named Keturah who was Abraham's second wife, which had six children by him, to the Queen of Sheba that had a son by Solomon and others blacks in the bible.These were the beginnings of the rise of the Black Independent Church.The independent black church became a refuge in times of trouble for the black race and a place of comfort for the despair.The church is a noble place that strove to meet the spiritual, educational and social needs of its people in times of trouble.I I III Table of Contents I. Introduction……………………………………………… pp.i-iv II.Chapter One: The African Christian Religious Background………………………………………………….pp.1-15 III.Chapter Two: The Reformation's Effect on the Colonization of English America…………………………………….…….pp.16-24 IV.Chapter Three: The Evolution of African American.Christianity during the Period of the English Colonies..….pp.25-44 V. Chapter Four: The Rise of the African American Independent Church in the New Republic: 1776 -1816……………..…..pp.45-58 B) The Rise of the Black Independent Church………...pp.59-81 VI.Summary and Conclusion……………………………....pp.82-89 VII.Abréviations …………………………………..…….…pp.90 VIII.Bibliography……………………………………………pp.91-105 Comment [T1]: Comment [T2R1]: from there throughout the world?I found that blacks were important in the "Second Creation Story" for after the Great Flood, Noah's sons; Schem, Ham and Japheth repopulated the earth.Japhethites went northward, and settled in regions around the Black and Caspian Seas; and became progenitors of the Caucasian races of Europe and Asia.Ham, who is recognized as the "Father of the Hamites" went southward to dwell in Africa in the land of Cush.The names given seem to indicate South and Central Arabia, Egypt, the East Shore of the Mediterranean, and the East Coast of Africa.Canaan, son of Ham, and his descendants, settled, and gave their name to the land, which later became the homeland of the Jews.Egypt was called the "Land of Ham." Shemites included Jews, Assyrians, Syrians, Elamites, in the north Euphrates Valley and its borders.I found that Abraham, the father of three religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) had taken a black woman (Keturah) as his second wife and had six sons with her.I read the story of Sheba and Solomon and their son Melinik who became the father of the Falasha Jews in Ethiopia, and of Frumentius who converted Ethiopia to Christianity five years after the Emperor Constantine declared it the official religion of the Roman Empire.Egypt, before the Muslim conquests, I discovered, was an early center of Christianity and that many of the early anchorite monks and "saints" were black.I was amazed by my research.During the era of European exploration,
Author: Carolyn F. Smith
Institution: University of Cincinnati
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W166333828