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The African-American church arose in a unique context. History and Theology of the African American Church (CS251) examines that context, taking into account the impact of the Civil War, the African-American missions movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the challenges that the African-American church faced in the twentieth century. An encouraging part of the course is seeing...

It is estimated that about fifteen million Africans were captured for the slave trade over the three hundred years of American slavery. Females did not equal males until 1840. So, you see, slavery was very devastating thing. Their culture was virtually wiped out—not totally, but virtually wiped out. Then you have this great importation of people from Africa to America. Of course, a lot of them did not make the middle passage, and that’s a shame. But, anyway, that’s the beginning. And it seems like,