1. AIM: How did the slave trades affect modern history?
Do Now: How do people use religion to justify hate?
HW: Read , Answer 2,3,4

2. Westboro Baptist Church

3. Religion as hate?

5. Treatment

6. Religion as justification
When you think of Jesus, what race do you imagine him to be?

7. Jesus

8. God

9. Why isn’t this more prevalent?

10. Does anyone really know what Jesus looked like?
Different societies have depicted Jesus and most other biblical figures as their own ethnicity in their art; for example he is primarily European in the West. When the Native Americans in California were converted to Christianity, he appeared in their art as a Native American. The current dominant opinion among historians and scientists is that he was most likely a Galilean Jew and thus would have features which resemble modern-day persons of Middle Eastern descent.

11. The statistics

12. Statistics

13. Trans-Saharan Slave Trade Reading

14. CHRISTIANITY AS A TOOL OF SUPPRESSION
How did the European view of Jesus and God keep Africans suppressed?