Northern liberal seminaries supplied the intellectual milieu for black women’s feminist theology.

Evidence

Between these extremes were liberals who came from the pulpits and seminaries of northern Protestant denominations—in fact, some of the same groups responsible for establishing institutions of higher learning for black people in the South. The great majority of these liberals attempted to reconcile their traditional religious beliefs with the new social and scientific theories. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 633

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• XREF: Builds directly on the book’s earlier chapters about Northern Baptist colleges producing educated black women leaders (ch3) - this identifies the theological bridge. — connects to: Northern Baptist colleges created the educated black women who led the convention movement. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 119