Why did the American slaves adopt the god of their enslavers?

FEAR is the best motivator ever devised... Stockholm syndrome explains the rest.

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Let's return to facts. If the slaves were muslim, they were worshipping the same god, just that they had the different way of doing so shoved in their faces.... if they were pagan in some form then there was a big change based on the monsters who enslaved them. Either way, people who keep/kept slaves (yes now and before) are monsters. Nobody deserves to be treated cruelly.

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They usually were forced to. Ever notice that Black-Americans tend to be some kind of southern Protestant while Black-Latinos tend to be Catholic?

You're asking this question as if the same people who were enslaved are alive today. Most of the descendants of slaves are so far removed genealogically from their ancestral religions that they have no compelling reason to convert.

Why are the majority of White people Christian and not practicing the paganism of their ancestors 2000 years removed? Why are the majority of Middle Eastern people Muslims and not pagan?

PS: I don't think it's true that slaves brought to the new world were Muslim. They were all sub-Saharan Africans from modern day Ghana and the Ivory Coast. They practiced African Indigenous Religion and/or ancestor worship.

In their difficulties, the only god that came to their aid was the living God who also happened to be the god of their enslavers who perhaps professed Him just conventionally.

This God first gave them spiritual freedom of joy and peace despite being slaves, and then, in the due course of time in history, also physical freedom.

They directly witnessed the character, power, and the life of people like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., who worshipped the true God. They also saw the character and weakness of those who did not, even their own people.

They took a wise decision without being influenced by any revenge, hatred, bias or any false pride to their great benefit!

Just the same as people from specific parts of the world that worship a god or participate in a religion, it is what the are familiar with. Just as Islamic countries are worshiping the same god in countries that are predominately Muslims?

"Some were followers of Allah"

This is rather unlikely. Most of the west African slave trade was managed by Arabs from north of the Sahara, and in fact much of the war to end slavery in west Africa was specifically along religious lines (British Christian Abolitionists against north African Arab Muslim Slavers).

The Americans who bought and owned slaves were overwhelmingly Christian, but the Abolitionist were Christian also. William Wilberforce was a devout churchman, and John Newton (who wrote Amazing Grace - the abolitionist anthem) had left his profession of slaver as a direct result of a religious epiphany. By the middle of the nineteenth century Christianity was abolitionist everywhere except the US. Islam would continue to support slavery in Africa until early in the twentieth century.

American Blacks would not have considered themselves as sharing the reigion of their owners; they would have thought of it as the religion of the aboitionists.

Because the dominant ideas of a culture are generally those of its ruling class.

And the American slaveowners were almost all Christians of some variety.

Plus, religious services were the only things a group of slaves would be allowed to do on their own.

Most slaveowners directly fostered and encouraged it, and allowed Christian proselytizers free access to their slaves.

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There are plenty of reasons. Christian slave owners often made a point of teaching Christianity to the slaves, to save them from the bondage of hell (sweet of them, wasn't it?) Apart from that, the slaves were just assimilated into the generally Christian American culture.

The same reason that the Mexicans adopted the religion of their conquerors.

They rush to the Catholic church that used their ancestors as slaves to build the Catholic churches..

God does not belong to anyone. God is.

It was through prayer that slaves were set free.

Read the stories of abolitionists ie Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. They were Christians.

The stories of former slaves who escaped to freedom all tell of the Hand of God that supernaturally guided them to safety.

There is always a bigger picture. God works everything out for the good.

Read this you might find it intresting.

SHANGO: God of Thunder, Drums and Dance, having been elevated from being a famous warrior and the fourth King of the Yoruba.

one of the African gods