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“I am a Black man from the American South. I grew up in a Black Church of Christ — the tradition that takes communion every Sunday, sings without instruments, reads the King James in plain language and the law in plain terms. My mother taught me what faith is in that tradition: faith is not a feeling. It is a discipline. Book, chapter, and verse.” — from the introduction
Enemies of God: The Holy Betrayal of Negro Jews In The Diaspora is a work of nonfiction tracing a corridor most American history books skip. 1492 was two exiles in the same year — the one Europe wrote down, and the one it walked across the desert and erased. This book argues that the Jewish communities destroyed in West Africa, the trans-Saharan and Atlantic slave trades that followed, and the Black church I was raised in are not separate stories. They are one corridor.
Researched in the open. Written in plain English. Footnoted enough to defend itself, accessible enough to read out loud at the table. For the diaspora, the curious, the seminarian, the historian who suspects there is more.
Forthcoming. Pre-orders ship signed.
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