Crowned with Glory
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Crowned with Glory

How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Crowned with Glory

How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History

About this book

America was founded on the concept of the innate and inalienable rights of humankind. Many Christians see an echo of the imago Dei--that every human being carries the image of God--within those ideals. Yet these rights were systemically withheld from the Black and enslaved residents of this country for centuries. Through it all, Black people have proclaimed the truth of their dignity and personhood in powerful and profound ways.

Crowned with Glory collects many of the writings of these men and women, both familiar and lesser-known, to shine a light on what has always been there: an enormous movement of Black Americans demanding the liberty they were promised and deserved. With moving and insightful reflections on these oft-forgotten or suppressed voices, author Jasmine L. Holmes offers a hopeful and encouraging testament to the power of unrelenting cries for justice that will strike a chord with anyone looking for a robust Christian history of resistance.

If you want to understand how we got here, read this book. If you want to know where we go from here, read it again.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title Page
  4. Jasmine L. Holmes’s Previous Books
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. Epigraph
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. Give Me Liberty
  12. 2. A Double Victory
  13. 3. The Double Curse
  14. 4. “Marriage under Such a System”
  15. 5. “Not a Single Presbyterian Negro”
  16. 6. “Slavery Has Well Nigh Murdered Him”
  17. 7. Frater-Feeling
  18. 8. “God Gave Me That Freedom”
  19. 9. “As Scarce as Hen’s Teeth”
  20. 10. “The Rights Which Manhood Can Confer”
  21. Afterword
  22. Notes
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. About the Author
  25. Back Cover