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CONTENTS Introduction . . . . .1 Chapter Part I. Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks to Slavery 1. What is Race . . . .3 2. Race and The Bible . . .6 3. Slavery . . . . 10 Part II. From Christianity to Black Religion 4. Influence of Christianity . 14 Concluding Statement . . . 17 Selected Bibliography . . . 19 Introduction This research paper will examine the works of such scholarly authors as Louis Ruchames, John Henry Hopkins, James W. C. Pennington, Samuel G. Morton, Louis Agassiz, Audrey Smedley, Wilson Moses and others about their views on race, slavery and religion. This paper will use the ideas from the Bible and the views of other authors to trace the origin of blacks, the ideas of slavery, and how slavery and Christianity amalgamate to form different views of the slavery institution. Then, it will discover how Christianity became the basis of black religion. Furthermore, this paper will help to understand what race is, why race began and what different authors thought about the black race. It will also examine how the views of race affected society and the ideas of religion to this day. Although race is considered, a fiction with no scientific basis, many scholars hav