Jasmine L. Holmes
Autor von Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope
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Jasmine L. Holmes is an educator, podcaster, and author of multiple books, including Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us. She and her husband, Phillip, are parenting three young sons in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Much like this author states:
First, so often, when looking at the history of enslavement, readers tend to look at the perspective of the oppressor first...
When people ask, "Did anyone in the church stand up for the rights of the enslaved?" they generally mean, "Did any white churchmen stand up for the rights of the enslaved?" They don't usually mean, "What was the Black church saying about slavery?" because the Black church isn't at the center of their understanding of what the American church is.
To ask what Black men and women thought about slavery...is to center the oppressed in our conversation about oppression.
It's so important that this book gives readers the opportunity to hear from voices of the past, a people's own voices, and not only as a supplement or a secondary angle to the narrative.
I appreciate that this book highlights how Black men and women weren't idle and that the enslaved in the United States weren't merely "helpless pawns tossed to and fro" as history happened to them.
But men and women did rebel throughout the history of enslavement in America... Because as human beings made in God's image, they had an innate sense of their worth given by God.
Dignity.
Now, perhaps this part goes without saying, but I'm going to say it anyway: Just because I'm a Black woman and proud to be so doesn't mean I agree with everything every Black person in history ever did or said. Not even every distinguished Black voice in history agreed with each other about everything, of course, which this author doesn't neglect to make clear.
Hence, just because I may highly recommend this book doesn't mean I condone every word or deed of every single noteworthy figure in it.
But I do indeed highly recommend this book to anyone who considers it wise to gain perspective on history—including when it comes to the integral ways that American history and Christianity coincide.
I received a complimentary copy of this book for an honest review.… (mehr)