[Salvavida]

Indeed, but I was not arguing off the virtues of one man. Negro spirituals resulted from the widespread effort to convert the blacks from African Traditional Religion (same tenants as Native American Spiritualism), to Christ.

Living with blacks made it impossible to ignore their humanity, thus, their inherent worth being made after the image of God.

The tragedy of holding to the Old World theology that the blacks were descendants of Cain (Gen 4) was their downfall. Lazy theology.

[oldvirginian]

Yes, the old spiritual songs were very heartfelt and biblically based. The “spiritual” songs of today can’t hold a candle to them.