The Beatitudes : From Slavery to Civil Rights (Hardcover)

from mtpisgahumc

The Beatitudes, the beginning of Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount, found in Matthew 5: 3-12, is the underlying theme of this children's book. The author portrays important, but not always well-known, African-Americans from the slavery ships, through the Civil War and Civil Rights Movement, to th...

from lalfonso

The Beatitudes From Slavery to Civil Rights begins with a quote from the King James Version of Mathew 5:3-12, The Beatitudes. Then the book illustrates one of the beatitudes using a snippet of an event from black history. This story was told beautifully using soft water color images. The beatitud...

from MaowangVater

From anonymous slaves chained in the hold of a slaver in the middle passage to the inauguration of Barack Obama as President, Weatherford poetically brings forth vignettes of African Americans who "brought biblical values to bear on the freedom struggle." She uses the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12) ...

from MaowangVater

From anonymous slaves chained in the hold of a slaver in the middle passage to the inauguration of Barack Obama as President, Weatherford poetically brings forth vignettes of African Americans who "brought biblical values to bear on the freedom struggle." She uses the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12) ...