New book explores how the Bible was liberation for slaves
Enslaved African Americans interpreted the Bible and used it as a source for hope, empowerment, and literacy, according to a new book by Union Presbyterian Seminary Associate Professor of Bible Rodney S. Sadler Jr. and Messiah College Professor of Biblical Studies Emerson B. Powery. In their book “The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved,”…
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