Black Fire Audiobook!
Black Fire audiobook is available through Spotify, Barnes & Noble, Libro.fm, Apple Books, and many other retailers! (Amazon/Audibles not yet, but soon.)
Listen to Thee Quaker Project podcast about the Black Fire, here. It includes audiobook excerpts.
Black Fire - African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights, is a brilliant anthology from editors Harold D. Weaver Jr., Paul Kriese, and Steven W. Angell . The book gathers together the voices of 18 remarkable individuals who spoke and wrote as African Americans from within the Quaker community. they testify about their viewpoints on racial justice -- both within the Religious Society of Friends and society at large - and they speak of their life in the Spirit. As a collection, these selections exhibit the vitality and wisdom that three centuries of African American Quakers have contributed to and on behalf of Friends.
The book contains writings by: 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).
Edited by Harold D. Weaver Jr., Paul Kriese, and Steven W. Angell
Publisher: Quaker Press of FGC, 2011 print book and ebook, 2025 audiobook