{"product_id":"mother-emanuel-two-centuries-of-race-resistance-and-forgiveness-in-one-charleston-church-hardcover","title":"Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Sack\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping history of one of the nation's most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice--from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kevin Sack\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterpiece . . . a dense, rich, captivating narrative, featuring vivid prose . . . expansive, inspiring and hugely important.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Race, religion, and terror combine for an extraordinary story of America.\"--Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBegin Again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew people beyond South Carolina's Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston--Mother Emanuel--before the night of June 17, 2015, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church's charismatic pastor and eight other worshippers. Although the shooter had targeted Mother Emanuel--the first A.M.E. church in the South--to agitate racial strife, he did not anticipate the aftermath: an outpouring of forgiveness from the victims' families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted Charleston and the South since the earliest days of European settlement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMother Emanuel\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fascinating history that brought the church to that moment and the depth of the desecration committed in its fellowship hall. It reveals how African Methodism was cultivated from the harshest American soil, and how Black suffering shaped forgiveness into both a religious practice and a survival tool. Kevin Sack, who has written about race in his native South for more than four decades, uses the church to trace the long arc of Black life in the city where nearly half of enslaved Africans disembarked in North America and where the Civil War began. Through the microcosm of one congregation, he explores the development of a unique practice of Christianity, from its daring breakaway from white churches in 1817, through the traumas of Civil War and Reconstruction, to its critical role in the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt its core, \u003ci\u003eMother Emanuel\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic tale of perseverance, not just of a congregation but of a people who withstood enslavement, Jim Crow, and all manner of violence with an unbending faith.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Sack\u003c\/b\u003e is a veteran journalist who has written about national affairs for more than four decades and has been part of three Pulitzer Prize-winning teams. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, and a graduate of Duke University, he spent thirty years on the staff of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003ewhere he specialized in writing long-form narrative and investigative reports, often related to race. He has also written for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution, \u003c\/i\u003eand his work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine. \u003c\/i\u003eHe was a 2019 Emerson Collective Fellow at New America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.08 x 9.37 x 6.41 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51966566334765,"sku":"9781524761301","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/bUC1o-MXOJ9781524761301.webp?v=1775534592","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/mother-emanuel-two-centuries-of-race-resistance-and-forgiveness-in-one-charleston-church-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}