African American Christianity beliefs contain some Christian elements. However, African-American Christianity is primarily African. Although some might say that it contains both, it is mainly African because of the fashion in which the African-Americans created their religion. It is primarily African because they separated themselves from Christians and made African-American Christianity their own. According to the lecture, during the 19th century slaves did not become Christians, but they fashioned their faith from the cultural resources that they were given. One example being the slave poets that used different symbols throughout their spirituals. These spirituals contained rituals such as hoodoo and voodoo. They believed it could cure an
