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Item Open Access Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions(Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions, 2008) Matory, JLItem Open Access Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions(2008) Matory, J LorandWhereas most African Americans and most university scholars regard enslavement as a demeaning condition, many African or African-inspired religions represent slaves as powerful and social hierarchy as a normal condition of life. Indeed, Christianity and Islam valorize slavery and the slave is ways that we seldom highlight or recognize as shaping publicly accepted conduct even in recent times.