In my research paper I"m going to talk about the history of my religion. My religion is A.M.E Zion, which is African Methodist Episcopal Zion. ... Only non-Christians could be enslaved and so the attention of Portuguese and Dutch and English merchantmen were turned to the Africans. ... While his missionary work was not carried on in America, it had a profound effect on Negro religion in the colonies. ... Zion Church is one of the most popular religion. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

From Christianity to Black Religion 4. ... Then, it will discover how Christianity became the basis of black religion. ... It will also examine how the views of race affected society and the ideas of religion to this day. ... "# Degler's analysis of Negro discrimination continued with an explanation saying, "Thus, legal slavery in the English colonies reinforced and helped to perpetuate the discrimination against the Negro which prevailed almost from the beginning of settlement... Although, their meanings of race varied from place to place and "it was the English in North America...

• Word Count: 3801
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Not only did the colonial state provide a simpler way of understanding identity, the colonial state provided religion and schooling systems in order to conduct the behavior of the colonized subjects. ... In the light of this, African customs, religion, language, heritage and way of life was discouraged. ... " 4 It is clear to see the Colonial thinking of superiority and dominance in the name of religion. ... Racist Ideas In the past, the English had equated blackness with death and evil with their interactions of diseases and biblical writings. ... Evidence which was illustrated prev...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Though he was in England at the time of writing, his preoccupation with the colonies image poses more of an issue. ... As an ambitious planter, Beverley deplored the "heavy impositions "2 put upon colonists by the English crown and used outspoken Americanism to celebrate Virginia's quality of governance in rebuke. ... This source however is in relation to Jews and them using those of different religions as their slaves as their non-adherence to Judaism evidenced their inferiority, rather than a racial motivation so has questionable direct application. ...

• Word Count: 1094
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The town did not have a very good moral reputation, however, it carried on successful trade with other English colonies. As the town grew more successful, Englishmen from other colonies came to New York. ... At first the Jewish practiced their religion in secret, until they received their own cemetery, then they practiced openly. ... When the war was over, it was signed back over to the English because the Dutch did not want the land. ... In 1688, the British government joined New Jersey and New York to the England colonies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Another text which explores this theme is the work of Coguano (1787), that describes, in English, the horrific conditions aboard the slave ships. ... The first one uses many documents, reports and testimonies produced by the English tribunals in eighteenth century, without consideration to the slaves point of view, or African American literature. ...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School