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African Americans Understood Paul‘s Words While Slave Owners Twisted Them (Lisa Bowens)

The Biblical Mind

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Howit Therman's Grandmother, Nancy Ambrose, Was an Enslaved Woman

i think it's important to understand how scripture was used to justify oppression om an enslavement. And then you have all of these voices, i think, which are just as important, if you will, that lift up how i many african americans use scripture for justice and freedom. E book with that story is a really powerful story on so many levels,. because it tells us how paul was preached to the enslaved Om. But what i found in my research, which was surprising to me actually, was that more often than not, afrikaans utilized scripture in ways that were positive... they saw god is a liberator in scripture, am.

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