With the rise of colonies in the Americas and their need to incorporate laborers, Europeans focused their attention to Africa, and some asserted that the Transatlantic Slave Trade would make it possible for Africans to make contact with Christianity and 'civilisation'.
For this reason, religion was an important driver during slavery period, since Africans slaves, after their arrival to the Americas, were subject to different methods to make them more docile, being Christianity a crucial part.