This program is made possible by viewers like you. Watch The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song on your local PBS station, the PBS Video App - and on YouTube through March 16: explores the roots of African American religion beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Africans preserved and adapted their faith practices from the brutality of slavery to emancipation. Gates describes the Black church as 'the cultural cauldron Black people created to combat a system designed in every way to crush their spirit.' We'll talk about the bargain Gates made.
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