A review by crankylibrarian
Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color by Fredrick L. McKissack, Patricia C. McKissack

4.0

McKissck recounts familiar Jewish Bible stories from the perspective of 19th century African Americans. In the cadence of southern black speech, the narrator compares Esther to a light skinned African American woman who rescues a group of slaves; Joseph to a slave boy who forgives the betrayal which causedhim to be sold away from his family; and of course Moses to the black American slaves demanding their own freedom. As an African American Jewish mother this book has always had a very powerful meaning for me, right up there with Alvin Ailey's "Revelations"