MIPodcast #69—Setting down the sacred past of African Americans, with Laurie Maffly-Kipp
Channel: Maxwell Institute
Date: 10/10/2017

Twelve million Africans were forced into slavery from the seventeenth century until Emancipation. Torn from their land, separated from family and kin, their bodies were stolen and their very identities were at risk of annihilation. So Africans became African Americans. Years before Reconstruction, they began reconstructing their own past. Many of them combined patriotism, racial lineage, and Christian scripture to tell their stories, to remember who they were. To save themselves.

Laurie Maffly-Kipp joins us in this episode to talk about this history from her acclaimed book, "Setting Down the Sacred Past: African American Race Histories." 

Laurie Maffly-Kipp is the Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. 

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