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Hence, the Bible was perceived as the Book for Europeans to interpret, which in turn gave justification for European Christian domination. [1] However, as African Americans began to claim Christianity as their own, African American biblical hermeneutics arose out of the experiences of racism in the United States .
Free Black people drew up petitions and joined the army during the American Revolution, motivated by the common hope of freedom. [47] This hope was bolstered by the 1775 proclamation by British official Lord Dunmore , who promised freedom to any slave who fought on the side of the British during the war. [ 48 ]
The Museum of the Bible, during a 2018 exhibition called "The Slave Bible: Let the Story Be Told", exhibited an example from 1807. This bible was one of three copies of this version, and is owned by Fisk University. It was printed by Law and Gilbert of London, for the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves. [5]
Hebrews would be punished if they beat a slave causing death within a day or two, [12] and would have to let a slave go free if they were to destroy a slave's eye or tooth, [13] force a slave to work on the Sabbath, [14] return an escaped slave of another people who had taken refuge among the Israelites, [15] or to slander a slave. [16]
Ashkenaz: A people of the Black and Caspian sea areas, much later associated with German and East European Jews. [9] The Ashkuza, who lived on the upper Euphrates in Armenia expelled the Cimmerians from their territory, and in Jeremiah 51:27 were said to march against Babylon along with two other northern kingdoms.
A Black family's Bible ended up in the Smithsonian and helped a California family fill out its genealogy. It's on display in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
A photograph of William Saunders Crowdy which appeared in a 1907 edition of The Baltimore Sun. The origins of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement are found in Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy, who both claimed that they had revelations in which they believed that God told them that African Americans are descendants of the Hebrews in the Christian Bible; Cherry established the "Church ...
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