Slave Religion Quotes

“Put up a soul, put up a soul. Prepare me a body, an I will go an meet Justice on Calvary’s brow!” He was so dramatic. In describing the crucifixion he said: “I see the sun when she turned herself black. I see the stars a fallin from the sky, and them old Herods comin out of their graves and goin about the city, an they knew ‘twas the Lord of Glory.”
― Albert J. Raboteau, Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South