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The letters of Paul—especially the verse in Ephesians directing slaves to obey their masters—played an enormous role in promoting slavery and justifying it as a Christian practice. Yet despite this reality African Americans throughout history still utilized Paul extensively in their own work, responding to his theology and teachings in numerous—often starkly divergent and liberative—ways. In the...

for many Christianity seems to be a “betrayal of the Negro into the hands of his enemies by focusing his attention upon heaven, forgiveness, love, and the like” (29). Thurman admits that although these elements are part of Jesus’s teaching, one must look at the entire context of Jesus’s life before injudiciously espousing such attributes. He maintains that if one focuses on retrieving the “religion of Jesus,” then it is possible even in the midst of the church’s “betrayal of his faith” to recover
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