How did slaves go about going to churches if their "master" didn't want them to? I'm doing a research paper :)

I'm doing a research paper, so even a good website address would help!

How did slaves go about going to churches if their "master" didn't want them to? I'm doing a research paper :)
I don't know any good ones specifically but Wikkipedia would be good. Some slaves were allowed to go to church long as there was a sheriff outside the window, making sure the pastor didn't talk abuot freedom or something. Hope this helps! Good luck on your paper.
Reply:That's a complicated question. In South, many times, masters would allow slaves to go with them to church. The sermons in those white churches often focused on the master/slave relationship and how it was the slave's religious duty to follow and obey their masters.





Of course, after these services many slaves attended their own churches. Some slaves bargained their way to free time on Sundays for services or masters saw the services as an appeasement technique. Of course, if the message of the sermon was too radical and got back to the master there would be trouble. So the slave churches often hid their messages in song and what seemed like children's stories.





Whether these services were held varied from master to master from plantation to plantation.





Some books that may help you are Roll Jordan Roll (just get it from a library and skim to find what you need it long), The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Slave Narrative like the Slave Narrative of frederick Douglass may also hold some clues for you, Slave Missions and the Black Churches in the Antebellum South by Janet Duitsman Cornelius is also a good read on the subject. Below are some links to check out they may help you with your project. Best of Luck!
Reply:anyone can find time to do what they want to do. i bet if you wanted to do something you will find a way to do it.