audiobook The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women During the Slave Era by Wilma King in History

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Taking California as a window into the diversity of religion in America; Golden States of Grace documents marginalized communities at prayer in their own faith traditions. The collection is thoroughly interfaith; introducing us to the nation's only halfway house for addicts self-identified as Jewish; a transsexual gospel choir; a Buddhist community in San Quentin; a Mormon congregation organized by the deaf for the deaf; Latina sex workers worshipping the female folk deity Santísima Muerte; and more. Depictions of conventional middle-class religion are widely visible in the media; but the American public rarely sees the sacred worlds of society’s marginalized: the outcasts; the fallen; those that have been labeled “other”--ironically; those whom religion aims to serve. The poignant stories Nahmias has gathered here cross numerous boundaries and ask difficult questions few outsiders have been willing to pose.