Prophesying daughters : Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 / Chanta M. Haywood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haywood, Chanta M., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women clergy--History--19th century.

African American women clergy.

African American women clergy--History--20th century.

Prophecy--Christianity--History.

Prophecy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In nineteenth-century America, many black women left their homes, their husbands, and their children to spread the Word of God.Descendants of slaves or former "slave girls" themselves, they traveled all over the country, even abroad, preaching to audiences composed of various races, denominations, sexes, and classes, offering their own.

Contents:

The prophesying daughters : biographical and historical background

The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history

Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust

Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives

Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation

Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism

the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet

Can I get a witness? : the implications of prophesying for African American literary studies.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-137) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8262-6299-6

OCLC:

54761075