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By Catherine A. Brekus

ISBN-10: 0807824410

ISBN-13: 9780807824412

ISBN-10: 0807847453

ISBN-13: 9780807847459

Margaret Meuse Clay, who slightly escaped a public whipping within the 1760s for preaching with out a license; "Old Elizabeth," an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to evangelise opposed to slavery within the early 19th century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in entrance of Congress 4 occasions among 1827 and 1844--these are only a number of the outstanding girls profiled during this, the 1st finished historical past of girl preaching in early America.

Drawing on quite a lot of assets, Catherine Brekus examines the lives of greater than 100 girl preachers--both white and African American--who crisscrossed the rustic among 1740 and 1845. Outspoken, visionary, and infrequently contentious, those ladies stepped into the pulpit lengthy ahead of twentieth-century battles over woman ordination all started. They have been charismatic, well known preachers, who spoke to countless numbers or even hundreds of thousands of individuals at camp and revival conferences, and but with yet a couple of remarkable exceptions--such as Sojourner Truth--these ladies have basically vanished from our background. improving their tales, Brekus indicates, forces us to reconsider lots of our universal assumptions approximately eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American culture.

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