Many regard Christianity as a faith that, through promises of paradise in the hereafter, lulls its adherents into a state of passive acceptance of injustice. However, this book lays bare the undeniable fact that from the time that Africans were first enslaved, Christianity has not only been a source of strength that has enabled them to survive, but it has also been the fuel for rebellion and insurrection. African-rooted spirituality prepared enslaved Africans and their descendants to take the slavemaster's warped Christian doctrine and transform it into a medium for a pure relationship with...