🔺Africans brought to America initially resisted giving up the religions of their forefathers
🔺But over the years, and with the birth of new generations on American soil, accepting Christianity became part of accepting America as home.
🔺Large numbers of slaves found the biblical message of spiritual equality before God appealing and found comfort in the biblical theme of deliverance.
🔺The first generation of African American leaders -- ministers -- arose from the revival movement. George Liele and his proteges, Andrew Bryan and David George, built the first black Baptist churches in Georgia and South Carolina.
🔺By 1800 Andrew Bryan's First Baptist Church of Savannah had grown to a congregation of 700.

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