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In the South
The situation in the South was not quite so benign. White harassment, due in part to the fear of slave uprisings, placed enormous pressure on Black churches, which nonetheless were able to survive, often in clandestine fashion. Biblical support for slavery was a common interpretation by many White churches. Perhaps in order to help them understand their place in this preordained order, slaves were often forced by their owners to attend church services. In a preview of one of the indignities of segregation, they sat in the balcony. Much Black religious activity was more free form however, occurring during brief respites from labor and/or White contact. One of the remarkable results of these informal expressions was the huge body of Negro Spirituals,
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