9 Devastating Actions White Slaves Masters Took to Convert Black People to Christianity

[Urchin]

@You Win Perfect couldn't keep up so he throws a fit like a dog. If anything it just shows he doesn't have a point

He just negged me and left an emotional comment just like a damn female would

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

You know blacks couldn't read.

This is false. Africans COULD read. It wasn't until 1831, after Nat Turner's rebellion, that Virginia enacted laws making it illegal to teach them to read. As far as the children born into slavery, that's also a misnomer......​

Elizabeth Key Grinstead (b. 1630 - d. c. after 1665) was the first woman of African ancestry in the North American colonies to sue for her freedom from slavery and win. Elizabeth Key won her freedom and that of her infant son John Grinstead on July 21, 1656 in the colony of Virginia. She sued based on the fact that her father was an Englishman and that she was a baptized Christian. Based on these two factors, her English attorney and common-law husband William Grinstead argued successfully that she should be freed. The lawsuit in 1655 was one of the earliest "freedom suits" by a person of African ancestry in the English colonies.

As a result of her win, colonists changed the laws so the status of children followed the mother instead of the father.

Nat Turner was a devout Christian. What he did was BECAUSE he was a Christian.​

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

This nikka trying to tie CAC slavery in with ours.

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[kevm3]

I look at the state of our people and most of our issues don't come from us following the bible.

Exactly. A lot of issues would actually be solved if we followed the Bible and the moral principles within. Most hear, but do not follow.

On another note, I get tired of hearing about this white man is so powerful he keeps us from doing this or that nonsense. The real mental chains come from the belief that black people need white peoples' permission before we can progress. How many times do we hear about how white people aren't 'letting' us do something? And yet how many times do we hear about white people needing blacks to 'let' them do anything?

 

[No Sleep]

@Dafunkdoc_Unlimited so how did they learn to read a book in a language that they didn't speak or know?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

@Dafunkdoc_Unlimited so how did they learn to read a book in a language that they didn't speak or know?

Other African/'Black' slaves taught them, or, their owners did.

There were also 'Free Blacks' that taught slaves and were hired as tutors.​

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

@Dafunkdoc_Unlimited so how did they learn to read a book in a language that they didn't speak or know?

Keep in mind, that slaves weren't just used as mule type labor..... They were carpenters, architects, engineers, agriculturists, etc(at least for that time) so it would behoove any owner from a financial standpoint to teach his most highly skilled, intelligent slaves English......

 

[No Sleep]

Other African/'Black' slaves taught them, or, their owners did.

There were also 'Free Blacks' that taught slaves and were hired as tutors.​

Well blacks had all this ability to read read and under the bible and they still allowed slavery to whip their ass.

 

[No Sleep]

Keep in mind, that slaves weren't just used as mule type labor..... They were carpenters, architects, engineers, agriculturists, etc(at least for that time) so it would behoove any owner from a financial standpoint, to teach his most highly skilled, intelligent slaves English......

This was up into the years when they learned and adopted the English language.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Well blacks had all this ability to read read and under the bible and they still allowed slavery to whip their ass.

They were outnumbered in a foreign land. The colonists also tried to enslave the Natives but that didn't work because they knew the lay of the land and their numbers were superior.

Africans/'Blacks' for the most part didn't follow the Bible. That didn't happen until AFTER the end of the Civil War.​

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

This was up into the years when they learned and adopted the English language.

No, that was from the beginning. The first African slaves in 1619 were skilled tradesmen.​

 

[No Sleep]

So it was only 31 years that blacks couldn't read and write during slavery.

 

[No Sleep]

No, that was from the beginning. The first African slaves in 1619 were skilled tradesmen.​

Skilled in English

What books you reading?

 

[Lewis Black]

Islam/Christianity is not for us black folks.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Skilled in English

What books you reading?

English wasn't the ONLY language in the American colonies. Not even the primary language. French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese were more prevalent.​