In this book the reader gets a close look at the broad diversity within the black Quaker experience. For nearly a century, historians and philosophers have struggled to understand and interpret the many moving parts of race, race relations, religion, and social justice. Black fire presents some of these moving parts of history to the Religious Society of Friends, unrolling some new scrolls and offering us new foundations from which to continue to explore African American stories, Quaker stories, and the intersections between the two.

Many of the best writings of African American Friends gathered in one place, making them accessible to a new generation of readers. As the Religious Society of Friends labors to understand its racial and cultural history and practices, this book provides valuable background and context for that work. ( )