While Simmy watches for danger from high in a tree, other slaves gather in a hidden spot in the woods to sing and pray together in their own way, risking their

In the early nineteenth century, enslaved Africans are not allowed to gather together in groups. For Simmy and his family, that means they must worship in secre

***Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize*** ***A Most Anticipated Book in The Rumpus?*** A resistance group takes America's racial reckoning i

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How slaves created the organized black church while still under the oppression of bondage.