Dating Jesus, Susan Campbell, January 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1066-2
Hartford Courant; review, "An American Girl Walks With Christ," by David Holahan, ran in the December 14th issue
"Dating Jesus is a mesmerizing, funny, impressionistic memoir of a spiritual and thoughtful person, one who has spent her life wrestling with religion, the meaning of faith and her feelings for the Divine."
Shout, Sister Shout!, Gayle F. Wald, February 2008, paperback, $16.00, 978-0-8070-0985-7
Beacon author, Gayle Wald initiated a fund-raising effort so that Sister Rosetta Tharpe could have a gravestone marking her resting place at Northwood Cemetery in Philadelphia. Her efforts finally paid off—read the full story below:
Beacon is delighted to announce a new acquisition: The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives. In this groundbreaking compilation of first person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise have unearthed 25 narratives spanning 125 years—three-fourths of which have never been published. What’s most striking about the collection is that it allows fugitive slaves to speak for themselves, in their own voices and on their own terms. It also demonstrates that much of what we assumed to be true about the runaway rebellion isn’t—that slaves typically ran South, not North; that women ran away, not just men; that both racial and gender passing occurred and that running away was not always about freedom, sometimes it was a strategy to negotiate the terms of their labor. The narratives range from well known runaway slaves like Frederick Douglass and Nat Turner to unknown figures like Ellen and William Craft, who escaped by disguising light-skinned Ellen as a white male slave owner traveling with her slave, William. The Long Walk to Freedom places runaway narratives at the heart of African American protest literature, capturing the ever poignant story of liberty or death. Fall 2010
We are pleased to announce the acquisition of the first book in our new free speech series: Let the Kids Speak! A History of the Fight for Free Speech for Students. Author David Hudson is an attorney with the First Amendment Center who has written extensively about free speech legal issues. Let the Kids Speak! traces the history of the growth of the free speech rights of students, a subject which continues to be a particularly hot issue in the courts. Fall 2010
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