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Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress (Paperback)

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By Jean M. Humez (Editor)
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A free black woman in antebellum America, Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871) was an independent itinerant preacher and religious visionary who founded a Shaker community in Philadelphia that survived her death by twenty-five years. Gifts of powers containers her complete extant writings, covering the period 1830 to 1864.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780870235658
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication Date: January 29th, 1987
Pages: 376
Language: English