ABSTRACT
In the United States of North America, there are 300 million (legal) citteens. Forty million are people of African descent whose ancestors were forced by violence to come, in August 1619, as private property to Jamestown, Virginia—an English-speaking British colony founded in 1607 in North America. 1 Among black North Americans or African Americans, black Christianity (Protestant and Roman Catholic) is the largest religious expression. Black women make up 70 to 80 percent of African American churches. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of black people relate to the church—through membership, by accepting social services of churches, or by burying family members in churches.
