Crowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History Holmes Jasmine L.
Crowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History Holmes Jasmine L. America was founded on the concept of the innate and inalienable rights of humankind. Yet…
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Crowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History Holmes Jasmine L.
America was founded on the concept of the innate and inalienable rights of humankind. Yet these rights were systemically withheld from the Black and enslaved residents of this country for centuries. Many Christians see an echo of the imago Dei--that every human being carries the image of God--within those ideals.
With moving and insightful reflections on these oft-forgotten or suppressed voices, author Jasmine L. 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. Holmes offers a hopeful and encouraging testament to the power of unrelenting cries for justice that