Promoting the Back to Africa Movement.
In the nineteen twenties, black people were hated and treated like animals in the sense of not getting any respect or freedom. At that time Jim Crow presented some laws, including; not having the right to vote, not be able to use the Pullmans, and have to use different water fountain etc. Emily Christmas Kinch then in this situation stepped into the picture and told what might have been the truth and a hopeful dream about "going back to your roots" so to speak. She made a speech and presented it to the black people of the United States. The speech consisted of the request and encouragement of all black people leave America and go to Africa specifically Liberia. She used many examples of why people should go to African some of which were; being able to enjoy your manhood by living in a country with a black president and be invited to a banquet at the state house. She used criticizing words like, "Why have you stayed so long? What has civilization and freedom meant to you if not to come back and give your life [You Have] bridged the rivers, thrown up skyscrapers for America, and yet you cannot walk into a first-class hotel because you are black." Which she meant to hit everyone black and white hard enough to make people think "wow, maybe she is right!" In her speech, she used many phrases relating to Christian terminology, like calling Africa the land of milk and honey. She most likely did this because Christianity was big in the united states in other words it "Boomed" when it was introduced to people in mass quantities. But what would possess the blacks and the slaves adopt a religion that is what their nemesis's also adopted? Well, because Christianity promises heaven and bliss forever, after this life and the next. Now imagine if you were working a crap job and shoveling fesses etc and someone came to you and told you that you can devote your life to an omnipotent "God" and he would take care of you forever until time ends as long as you love him more than anything.