Rope Neckties and Lynchings

Elsewhere I have suggested that Black religion as a historically manifest push toward a liberated existence is in fact a response to the terror and dread of dehumanization experienced by Blacks from the period of slavery to the present. In making such a claim, several things are important. One of the most crucial is a discussion of the nature and source of this terror and dread, and in this essay I give attention to this point. I do so by discussing the manner in which nineteenth- and twentieth-century lynchings provided an existential and ontological terror that Blacks responded to through the formation of liberative doctrines, institutions and practices

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