Gifts of power : the writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress / edited, with an introduction, by Jean McMahon Humez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Rebecca, 1795-1871.

Contributor:

Humez, Jean McMahon, 1944- editor, introduction writer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakers.

Theology--History--19th century.

Theology.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 368 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1981.

Contents:

A Note on the Text

I. Awakening and Early "Gifts" (1830-1832)

II. Breaking Away from Family and Churches (1833-1836)

III. Finding "God's True People on Earth" (1840-1843)

IV. Shaker Doctrine and First Residence at Watervliet (1844-1857)

V. Interim in Philadelphia: Experiments in Séance Spiritualism (1851-1857)

VI. Second Residence at Watervliet: Establishment of the Philadelphia Shaker Community (1857-1864)

Appendix: Significant Textual Variants; Writings of Rebecca Perot (as Dictated to Rebecca Jackson); Documents: Female Preaching and the A.M.E. Church, 1820-1852; Documents: Shakes Doctrine; Names Associated with Philadelphia Shaker Family.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-348).

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0870232991 :

OCLC:

7279073