The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History (Biblia.com)

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The unique encounter of African Americans with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and social engagement of a whole continent. Highly respected biblical scholar Vincent Wimbush here outlines the five phases of African American reading and shows how the Bible offered a language-world through which Africans Americans have negotiated the strange land into which they were thrust.

a discursive framework, and as an ideological mandate for practices of domination. It was theirs as a weapon.6 Hard to miss, as part of the external possessions of those who came among them as dominating people, was the book that explained and guaranteed their overall power situation in the world. How could the Europeans’ Bible have been deemed by the Africans as anything other than the most special of cultural-ideological cargo among the many items and kinds of cargo that the Europeans brought with

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