Brenda Stevenson’s “Marsa Never Sot Aunt Rebecca Down: Enslaved Women, Religion and social Power in the Antebellum South” illustrates the importance of Religion within slave communities specifically focusing on enslaved women’s influences, leadership, and social power. Throughout the text several different points of view are given highlighting the religious practices and interactions experienced between slave and slaveholders. Religion became a large part of the slaves lives especially women who would rise to become spiritual leaders and hold social power, the ability to have a social presence and influence beyond the traditional boundaries. Stevenson explains that being a part of this religious womanhood,” united them in a distinct "community"
