Read the passage and answer the question that follows: Slaves in the South were very religious people. They identified with stor
ies in the Bible about suffering. They had they own songs, called spirituals, that expressed their feelings of distress. Slaves looked to God to provide them with a better life. Unfortunately, slaves did not have their own churches, but were forced to attend white-led plantation churches. Choose the sentence that corrects a historical inaccuracy in the passage. African American slaves in the South embraced the polytheistic religions of their ancestors.
Many African Americans became ministers and formed their own congregations.
The song form called "the blues" expressed African Americans' deep spiritual dissatisfaction.
The stories of resurrection and the afterlife were most important to slaves in the South.
