Black clergymen were described with whites as "ignorant but cunning men who taught the most outrageous antinomian principles, subversive of all morals and ruinous to all correct notions of God and duty".7 Though the content of these black preachers" sermons is largely undocumented due to the reticence of the slaves in front of whites, the spirituals and slave accounts of lively and joyous worship and celebration have been documented in personal slave accounts. ... Ironically, the same story the white Christians connected with in motivating themselves for separation from England was used by ...

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