The content of these sermons was often consistent with themes from the Old Testament concentrating on deliverance, such as Moses and Joshua, which were the same stories that the white slaveholders wanted to shield from the minds of their slaves. ... Dark and dismal is the cloud that hangs over thee; for thy cruel wrongs and injuries to the fallen sons of Africa. ... Levine's study, Black Culture and Black Consciousness, suggests there was a "widespread conversion of slaves to Christianity by the time of the Civil War".15 More recent opinions however state that the slaves, though influen...

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