Narrative
Before black people were allowed to have their own places of worship in the US, secluded hush harbors allowed them to come together and worship in private. Hush harbors allowed black people in the antebellum South to combine African and Christian spiritual practices to create uniquely black worship traditions; to remember the forests of the motherland and remember the ancestor spirits. “It was primarily through religious rituals and the carving out of black sacred spaces that enslaved persons were able to affirm self and create a world over against the world proffered by the master for their families.”
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