And the Black people are - have formed themselves into what was probably a ring shout. He goes South to proselytize, and he's in a Southern Black church, obviously informal (ph). GATES: My favorite story illustrating the culture clash - Bishop Daniel Payne, who had been made a bishop in the AME Church, he goes South. Gates chronicles their rise along with the social and cultural shifts brought about by the Great Migration. But I think that they did so that they could believe in another kind of future here on Earth.ĬORNISH: The churches built by freedmen in the North in the 1800s and the Black Protestant traditions that thrived after the Civil War in the South served as the backbone to Black communities in the U.S., including the National Baptist Convention, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Church of God in Christ, among others. Is that why they embraced religion? Well, I think that that was one distant motivation, and that's part of, you know, their belief in Christianity. HENRY LOUIS GATES JR: Why did they do it? Did they do it to get into heaven? No. He wanted to understand the Black embrace of Christianity. But for a new book and documentary, historian Henry Louis Gates wanted to go a bit deeper. AUDIE CORNISH, BYLINE: The idea of the Black church is often discussed in the context of politics, and that's really important.
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