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

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University of Massachusetts Press, 1987 - Biography & Autobiography - 368 pages
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.

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TitleGifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress
AuthorRebecca Jackson
EditorJean McMahon Humez
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 1987
ISBN0870235656, 9780870235658
Length368 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
History / Social History
Literary Collections / American / General
Literary Collections / Essays
Literary Criticism / American / African American & Black
Literary Criticism / General
Religion / Christian Theology / History
Religion / Christianity / Shaker
  
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