Rginslinger,

"One thing that has puzzled me for a while now: when the black folks of Jamaica figured out that the British slave drivers were using Christianity to control them, they formed a new religion, Rastafarianism. Wouldn't "No Religion" have worked out better for them?"

I think another interesting point point is how Black People in the US embraced Christianity in a similar context. I suspect that Slave owners would not countenance African Religions but they could hardly oppose Black Christian Churches which became centres of resistance.