In an account by Fredrika Bremer, in which she was saying the Lord's Prayer with some slave children illustrates just how distant many blacks kept Christian ideology: I had been told that they also taught the children to pray. I gathered a little flock around me, and slowly repeated to them the Lord's Prayer, bidding them read the words after me. ... But the ring closes up and moves around and around.21 While these songs and dances were built of Christian exterior, the underlying themes and ideas were primarily of African orig...

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