Similarity Between Slavery And Religion

As hard as it is to understand what it was like to be a slave everyday for the rest of your life, people today can share similar interests and feelings with them. For many of us, religion plays a huge amount of importance in our lives. It can be used as a backbone for our struggles. Religion similarity between people also has the power to bring them together in congregation. We turn to God for help and advice, as people have done for years.
Having a connection with God and the bible was considered a saving grace and comfort system for slaves. Not accepted in churches, slaves began holding their own “religious ceremonies and services” led by slaves themselves. Slaves felt better about their every day life knowing that God had a plan for them and would help them through their struggles day by day. Two of the most known slaves that incorporated God and religion in their lives were Nat Turner and William Wells Brown. Slaves invented their own “source of religion” and these brave men helped develop it and spread it throughout the slave communities.
Unlike most of the other slaves, Nat Turner knew
“And the Holy Ghost was with me, and said, "Behold me as I stand in the Heavens"--and I looked and saw the forms of men in different attitudes--and there were lights in the sky to which the children of darkness gave other names than what they really were--for they were the lights of the Saviour's hands, stretched forth from east to west, even as they were extended on the cross on Calvary for the redemption of sinners.”
These visions that Turner had were calling him to search for freedom for the slaves from their owners, even if that meant he had to kill people. Although Turner’s intention wasn’t to hurt anyone, Nat Turner and his fellow slaves went to the house of Turner’s owner and killed everyone in the house. Starting first with the parents, then moving on to the children. This was called the “Nat Turner