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The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History is unavailable, but you can change that!

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.

identified with the Europeans, who even before they began their domination of Africans—and aside from what other cargo they brought along—must have seemed strange on account of their differences—in appearance, in speech, and in their ways. They were considered to be other in the world called Africa. And they were assumed to be powerful simply by virtue of their having appeared and having traveled from another world. A perception of power was associated with simply being able to show up from another
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