If the Bible supported the kidnapping of Black bodies, the rape of Black men and women, the separation of families, the whip and the chain, then he needed another book altogether. He needed another faith and another hope. In a sense the question behind all questions for the Black Christians is this one. Did God intend our freedom? Our reflections on the Bible and the Black Christian then should end here at the origin of all our problems, the question of the Bible and slavery.
