The Color of Compromise - Session 4 - Institutionalizing Race in the Antebellum Era
Color of Compromise (Jemar Tisby)
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The antebellum period was a time of compromise and complicity. During this time, many Christians engaged in evangelism to enslaved and freed blacks. The black church grew, laying the foundation for a distinctive tradition that would stand at the center of the black freedom struggle for the next century. Competing understandings of freedom, equality, and belonging in both the country and the congregation would soon explode into Civil War.
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