Essay with teaching guidance and resources by a leading scholar in American religious studies, from the National Humanities Center.

Online books and images which show how Blacks shaped religion in the South, and how the church became the center of Black community life. Approximately from the Revolutionary War until the late 1920s.

This exhibition demonstrates that many of the colonies that in 1776 became the United States of America were settled by men and women of deep religious convictions. It deals specifically with the formation of black denominations as part of its discussion.