Well there’s something about how the black church and preaching as a profession were central to black community organization and uplift programs

AND there’s the way that original-version abolitionism arose through competitive radicalization pressures through the medium of preaching as the idiom of public celebrity charismatic leadership

Like Benjamin Lay was a dwarf SFX preacher (stabbing a Bible filled with fake blood as a climax explosion) who yelled radical things to draw crowds but we consider him serious and not WWF-level entertainment bcuz his side ended up winning