A review by bergamot_breeze
Crowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History by Jasmine L. Holmes

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

My thoughts on this book feel hard to pin down, so bear with me. Not because this was a bad book by any means but because I want to do it justice.

Let me start with I am very glad to have read this book and I highly recommend it. Ms. Holmes focuses in on the stories and words of black men and women who fought against slavery and fought for the rights of the Imago Dei in themselves and in each other. I so appreciated getting to read what they said for themselves, while also having Ms. Holmes pop in to help center the story and give context to understand better where each individual was coming from. I know she states this as her goal in the afterword and I think she balanced this incredibly well.

I think this is a book that is sorely lacking on the shelves of (white) Christians. Many of these stories and lives were ones I had never heard of, many of the instances that take place have been washed away - very intentionally - by history. This was an amazing jumping off point for myself, and I'm sure for many others who find themselves realizing the education they were given was incredibly lacking in this department of history. It has helped me to better hone in on what I want to continue learning about, as well as the avenues that I can use to seek out more information.

I learned a lot from this book, and I loved getting to hear the stories of my brothers and sisters in Christ that have been ignored. I would like to thank Ms. Holmes for putting forth this labor of love. I will definitely be picking up Carved in Ebony and many other books I can find on these topics.

I received this copy from Netgalley for an honest review.
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