preachers became increasingly aware of the fact that white Christian movements were forcing certain disabilities in the form of dehumanization upon the Christian slave population. They discovered in the “Fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man” a new anthropological concept of human freedom and dignity. Little did white masters realize that these slave preachers were discovering such an orientation to life from the simple Bible stories of the Old Testament. The new awakening among slave preachers,
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