Sisters of the spirit : three Black women's autobiographies of the nineteenth century / edited, with an introduction, by William L. Andrews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrews, William L., 1946- editor.

Richardson, Marilyn, writer of foreword.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Religion in North America

Religion in North America.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lee, Jarena, 1783-.

Lee, Jarena.

Elaw, Zilpha, approximately 1790-1846.

Elaw, Zilpha.

Foote, Julia A. J., 1823-1900.

Foote, Julia A. J.

African American women evangelists--Biography.

African American women evangelists.

Evangelists--United States--Biography.

Evangelists.

United States.

African American women--Biography.

African American women.

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 245 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portrait ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1986.

Summary:

In Sisters of the Spirit three black American women recreate their lives and proclaim their faith in themselves as women with an empowering mission. As preachers of the Christian gospel, Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote helped to launch a feminist revolution in American religious life and in American society as a whole.

Contents:

The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee

Memoirs of the life, religious experience, ministerial travels, and labors of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw

A brand plucked from the fire / by Julia A. J. Foote.

Notes:

"The texts used in this edition are the 1836 edition of 'The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee,' the 1846 edition of Zilpha Elaw's 'Memoirs,' and the 1879 edition of Julia Foote's 'A Brand Plucked from the Fire' ... In each of these three texts the original spelling, punctuation, paragraphing, and chapter and section divisions have been preserved except in cases in which there is an inconsistency of spelling within a text, the evident result of a printer's error."--Textual Note.

Foreword (pages viii-ix) by Marilyn Richardson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Contains:

Lee, Jarena, 1783- Life and religious experience of Jarena Lee.

Elaw, Zilpha, approximately 1790-1846. Memoirs of the life, religious experience, ministerial travels, and labors of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw.

Foote, Julia A. J., 1823-1900. Brand plucked from the fire.

ISBN:

0253352606

0253287049

OCLC:

12262712