Grace of Centuries

Written over a span of twenty years, Grace of Centuries is an act of redress. Beginning with the African presence in the Bible and travelling through inheritances both collective and personal, Hope Anderson celebrates Black voices across centuries and continents, ranging from Bilali Muhammad, Queen Nzinga, and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges to Gannibal, John Ware, and Phyllis Wheatley – to name just a few. In so doing, he intervenes in a legacy that for so long did not offer welcome or embr...