By and By by Carole Boston Weatherford5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether writing poetry, biographies in verse, historical fiction, or nonfiction, Weatherford. Illustrator’s agent: Lori Nowicki, Painted Words. Prolific, award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford centers her books for children and young adults on significant African Americans in the United States, as well as African Americans’ cultural and historical contributions and experiences. Author’s agent: Rubin Pfeffer, Rubin Pfeffer Content. A reprint of the song’s lyrics is included, along with a further reading list and listening suggestions, and an author’s note recounts the song’s history in prose. The penultimate spread shows Barack Obama singing it at a church-shooting victim’s funeral. One poignant spread depicts a pregnant African-American slave singing the hymn in a cotton field she faces a pregnant Cherokee woman on the opposite page, chanting it on the Trail of Tears. ![]() “Choirs make the song their own./ Newton’s timeless hymn has grown./ Verses added here and there/ Till this song is like a prayer.” Verses trace the anthem’s use during the Civil War and the abolitionist and civil rights movements. Originating from Newton’s dramatic conversion story (he starts as an embittered sailor serving aboard a slave ship and becomes a minister and antislavery activist), the meaningful song spreads far and wide. Morrison’s vibrant, sometimes haunting oil paintings join Weatherford’s spare, rhyming couplets to delineate the birth and reach of the famed hymn “Amazing Grace.” Dynamic spreads highlight the life of Reverend John Newton, the Englishman who penned the inspirational song in the late 1700s. ![]()
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