Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress
edited by Jean M. Humez
University of Massachusetts Press, 1981
Paper: 978-0-87023-565-8 | eISBN: 978-1-61376-988-1 (PDF)
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 Power contains her complete extant writings, covering the period 1830 to 1864.
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