Explore the evolution of African-American religious thought, from the beliefs and rituals Africans brought to America to the influence of Christian teachings imposed on slaves in the new world.
Season 1
6 episodes
After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.
Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.
Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.
In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.
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Episode 1
There Is a River
Explore the evolution of African-American religious thought, from the beliefs and rituals Africans brought to America to the influence of Christian teachings imposed on slaves in the new world.
360 min
Episode 2
God Is a Negro
After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.
360 min
Episode 3
Guide My Feet
Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.
360 min
Episode 4
Freedom Faith
Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
360 min
Episode 5
Inheritors of the Faith
Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.
360 min
Episode 6
Rise Up and Call Their Names
In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.
360 min
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- Henry E. Hampton
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