SACRED SONG: SURVIVAL: SALVATION: IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

Enslaved Africans brought their music and religion with them

to America. They adapted their spiritual worldview into the

existing Christian framework for survival. The God of the

oppressor was transformed into the God of liberation and justice.

Salvation became the conduit for survival. Sacred song was embedded

with African spirituality and African American theology to create a

religious experience from...