The Psalm That Sustained Slaves - Black Church (Psalm 23)
Enslaved African Americans clung to Psalm 23. "I shall not want"—when they were denied everything. "Green pastures"—while working fields that weren't their own. "Valley of the shadow of death"—under threat of the lash, the auction block, the lynching tree. Yet...
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