Black People Are The Children Of God
He reminds us that all Black people have the right to life, liberty, and justice. Why? Because we are the true children of God.

“We don’t want you to have troubles while others are comforted. We want everything to be equal.” – 2 Corinthians 8:13 (ERV).
As the First Great Awakening spread across the British colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, enslaved preacher Reverend Gowan Pamphlet was dumbfounded by the irony of white enslavers complaining about not having liberty from the British.
Pamphlet used his sermons to point out that if white enslavers were talking about all God’s children deserving equality, they had to include all Black people.
Pamphlet had to be extremely cautious. It wasn’t uncommon for Black preachers to be watched or physically attacked because of their positions of respect and authority in their communities.
Pamphlet was falsely accused of co-organizing a slave uprising in 1793. When Virginia’s leading association of Baptist congregations banned all Black preachers, Pamphlet ignored their decree and continued preaching.
Pamphlet eventually bought his freedom. By 1805 he owned 14 acres in James City County, Virginia, and a city lot that would be transformed into the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg.
While Pamphlet was talking about equality, he was likely one of the first enslaved preachers to use his sermons to make a point about racial inequity.
Gowen’s legacy reminds us that our spiritual work is also political. How does Black liberation inform your spiritual work?
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