Methodist
This is one of the two Methodist leaders that believed the gospel was for all people regardless of race
Who is John Wesley and/or Francis Asbury?
The Baptist tradition became popular due to their laxed stance on this, that was not afforded Black people.
What is formal education?
The Great Awaking began as people were becoming increasingly dissatisfied with this formal movement of Christianity?
Protestantism
Millions of enslaved Africans were forced to travel the Atlantic Ocean during this Passage aboard vessel ironically named King Dahomey, Brotherhood, The Virgin Mary and John the Baptist.
What is the Middle Passage?
This is the Methodist leader who ordained Richard Allen
Who is Francis Asbury?
What is moral self-determination?
During the 1730s this Congregationalist preacher was responsible for bring a more participatory ministry aimed at bringing people into the church.
John Edwards
This society was established that lead to the roots of the independent Black Church movement.
What is the Free African Society?
The forced removal of Black people kneeling in prayer from this church, resulted in the formation of autonomous Black Churches
St. Georges
The Baptist denomination was also attractive to Black people to this type of white supervision.
What is, non existent?
Many White Christians did not want to convert Black people to Christianity for the fear they may interpret religious freedom as this.
What are societal and/or physical freedom?
While African Americans could not participate in antislavery organization n the upper South, many still cooperated covertly and informally with White abolitionsists through slave revolts and this interconnected system orchestrated to physical free those enslaved.
What is the underground railroad?
Methodists accepted traveling or itinerate ministers and were less heirarchal which led for the act of this act to be performed among Black people.
What is preaching
The general Baptist belief in human potential to fulfill God's will spoke very intensely to an enslaved people who were continuously condemned for being this less than neighborly term by White people
What is subhuman?
Cultural ties like that of animism, Supreme being and this for of worship/cosmic orientation mimicking the trinity and made Christianity more palatable to enslaved Africans and African Americans
What is ancestral worship?
President Lincoln's signing of this decree on Dec. 31, 1862, ending the government-sanctioned enslavement of African Americans in slave holding states, was what lead to the holding of watch night services.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Methodist leaders believed that Christian membership should be denied to these people
Enslavers
Most Black Baptist churches with the exception of New York City's Abyssinian Baptist Church were located where?
What is the antebellum South?
By the late 1700s Black men and women were now allowed to preach, and these were their audience.
Who are White Christians?
Black congregations were plagued with this -ism that have detrimental effects on Black women.
What is sexism?