Later on, in the 1970s and 1980s these traditions are considered as actually having been weak among the Southern slaves, replaced by Christianity, which, however, was adapted by the slaves according to their needs. From the early 1920s through the 1960s, the accent was put on the variety of religious traditions and rituals of the antebellum Southern slaves, but without them receiving the credit for these traditions, which were considered as being adaptations of European beliefs and rituals. However, the way they treated the subject differs and the conclusions they reached are varied. For many decades, scholars have debated the importance of religion in helping slaves cope with the horrible experience of slavery in the antebellum South.
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