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Black Fire is the first-ever collection of the writings of African American Quakers, from colonial times to the 20th century. Selections are included from the writings of 18 remarkable individuals including correspondence of Benjamin Banneker, an astronomer, son of a freed slave, who exchanged letters with Thomas Jefferson on the injustices of slavery; an 1813 petition to Congress by maritime entrepreneur Paul Cuffe, who traded with Sierra Leone and used his wealth to promote the cause of abolition; the deeply spiritual literary writings of Jean Toomer, pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance; memoirs of human rights activist Mahala Ashley Dickerson, first African American woman admitted to the Alabama bar; and the pacifist arguments of Bayard Rustin, advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., and of Bill Sutherland, who worked with nonviolent revolutionists in South Africa. Also included are interpretation of classic Quaker texts by the popular 20th century minister Howard Thurman and the poetry of Helen Morgan Brooks. “Black Fire is a landmark book that reframes our understanding of Quakerism, for it highlights the degree to which American Quakers were interracial almost from the outset, with black leaders shaping Friends’ spiritual and reform visions. Brilliantly conceived and beautifully edited, it should be required reading for anyone interested in American religion and reform.” --John Stauffer, Chair of History of American Civilization at Harvard and the author of the award-winning Black Hearts of Men and GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. "Black Fire is a unique, much-needed contribution to the continuing conversation about religion and race in the United States, and the place of Quakers in it. The editors have created may well be the definitive anthology." -- Tom Hamm, Quaker historian Includes the works of: Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), William Boen (1735-1824), Paul Cuffe (1759-1817), Elizabeth (1766-1866), Sojourner Truth (1799-1883), Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882), Robert Purvis (1810-1898), Jean Toomer (1894-1967), Howard Thurman (1899-1981), Ira DeAugustine Reid (1901-1968), Barrington Dunbar (1901-1978), Helen Morgan Brooks (1904-1989), Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), Mahala Ashley Dickerson (1912-2007), Bill Sutherland (1918- 2010 ), Charles Nichols (1919-2007), George Sawyer (1925-2002), Vera Green (1928-1982).

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"No country can tell its history truthfully until all its scrolls are unrolled" quotes Emma Lapsansky-Werner in the Foreword to “this wonderful anthology that mirrors the hard work and dedication of religious believers and practitioners, philosophers and scholars across several centuries.” Quakers in America have a reputation for work against slavery and for civil rights, but the stereotypical Quaker—pictured on the familiar box of oatmeal—is white, middle class, and complacent. African Americans who have involved themselves with the Religious Society of Friends are little recognized or remembered as Quakers. In this anthology—the first of its kind—the voices of African American Friends, speaking from their own experiences and opinions, are brought together.
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Harold D. Weaver, Jr., is a Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University; Paul Kriese is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University East, specializing in African and African American studies, gender studies, and multicultural politics; Stephen W. Angell is Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.

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