girl from the nc

please do not lump me in with somebody else....

and take my comments at face value as an individual talking......I grew up in a northern American town that was about 95% first generation southern immigrant....mostly from Alabama, South Carolina..and Georgia...

I grew up since age 3 with and among Black people who were from rural areas down south....not too different from the rural background my parents had in Haiti. Trust me that nothing I'm saying is from a book or an article. And also trust me when I say that whatever assumption you're making based on my comments were misguided.....

Wile you are right, black people (here) are among the most Christian people you will ever meet...and that would probably go double for down south....


*You were wrong about Brazil and why the African traditions survived there....
Brazil, Haiti, and French speaking US possessions(louisiana)...were colonized by Catholic countries.....their brand of slavery was more conducive to Africans being able to hide and retain our culture(s)....and religions....Spanish were Catholic as well....and many of the cultural ties to Africa survived also...the saints in Catholic tradition were worshipped by the Africans in the eyes of the slavers....but we were hiding from them that were worshipping our own gods in polytheistic tradtions....
Protestant countries had policies and circumstances that made it harder for the African traditions to survive...

BUT..like you alluded to...US took over Louisisana territory....Those Africans who were under that system were absorbed into the United States.....


The elements of African religions that have been absorbed into African american christianity may not stand out but they are there....
Bonafide Christians who go to church every Sunday.....hold beleifs and traditions that would under any other name be called something else...which expalins why the style, patterns, etc of the black church in america are so different from white churches...even when the denomination is the same....
more to the point, roots, "interpreting dreams"", numerology for lack of a better word..hodoo, juju,and other stuff practiced by bonafide christians exists down south.....