Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth CenturyWilliam L. Andrews Indiana University Press, 1986 M07 22 - 256 páginas "Sisters of the Spirit . . . should interest a wider audience. . . . These fascinating accounts can stand on their own. . . . Mr. Andrews has made them even more accessible by providing a comprehensive introduction and helpful footnotes . . . but he does not intrude on the text itself." —New York Times Book Review " . . . informative and inspiring reading." —The Journal of American History Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote underwent a revolution in their own sense of self that helped to launch a feminist revolution in American religious life and in American society as a whole. |
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... young enough to see lives of rich possibility ahead . They launched themselves into all but endless rounds of grueling travel and preaching , from tense and dangerous journeys to slaveholding states in the southern United States , to ...
... young enough to see lives of rich possibility ahead . They launched themselves into all but endless rounds of grueling travel and preaching , from tense and dangerous journeys to slaveholding states in the southern United States , to ...
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... young children to provide for . Returning to Philadelphia in 1818 , Lee approached Richard Allen , now bishop of the first black denomination in America , the African Methodist Episcopal church , with a request to be permitted to hold ...
... young children to provide for . Returning to Philadelphia in 1818 , Lee approached Richard Allen , now bishop of the first black denomination in America , the African Methodist Episcopal church , with a request to be permitted to hold ...
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... young companions , nor ought I to have expected it . The manners and customs at this place were somewhat different , on which account I became discontented in the course of a year , and began to importune my husband to remove to the ...
... young companions , nor ought I to have expected it . The manners and customs at this place were somewhat different , on which account I became discontented in the course of a year , and began to importune my husband to remove to the ...
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... young , but now I am old , yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken , nor his seed begging bread " [ Ps . 37:25 ] . I have ever been fed by his bounty , clothed by his mercy , comforted and healed when sick , succoured when tempted ...
... young , but now I am old , yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken , nor his seed begging bread " [ Ps . 37:25 ] . I have ever been fed by his bounty , clothed by his mercy , comforted and healed when sick , succoured when tempted ...
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... young man . He was a coloured man , who had generally attended our meetings , but not for any good purpose ; but rather to disturb and to ridicule our denomination . He openly and uniformly declared that he neither believed in religion ...
... young man . He was a coloured man , who had generally attended our meetings , but not for any good purpose ; but rather to disturb and to ridicule our denomination . He openly and uniformly declared that he neither believed in religion ...
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II Memoirs of the Life Religious Experience Ministerial Travels and Labors of Mrs Zilpha Elaw | 49 |
An Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs Julia A J Foote | 161 |
Notes | 235 |
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A.M.E. church Alexander Payne American antebellum appeared attended autobiography became believe Bible blessed blood brethren called camp-meeting chapel Christian coloured congregation conversion darkness daughter dear divine Elaw's exhort faith fear feel felt female friends glory grace happy hath hear heard heart heaven heavenly Father Holiness Movement Holy Ghost Holy Spirit husband Jarena Lee journey Julia Foote knew labours lady live Lord Lord's Lord's-day manifested meeting mercy Methodist Episcopal Church mind minister ministry morning mother never night Paul the Apostle peace persons Philadelphia praise pray prayer preach the gospel preacher present pulpit Rebecca Cox Jackson received religion returned Richard Allen salvation sanctification Satan Scriptures seemed sermon sing sinner sins sister slave society Sojourner Truth soon soul tea meeting thee things tion told took unto weeks woman women word Zilpha Elaw
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Página 189 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Página 42 - He made the sky And earth and seas, with all their train: His truth for ever stands secure; He saves the oppressed, He feeds the poor, And none shall find His promise vain.
Página 46 - Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth ; keep the door of my lips.
Página 235 - Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Página 150 - God ; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness ; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Página 140 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Página 76 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Página 224 - Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Página 31 - Jesus sought me when a stranger, Wandering from the fold of God; He, to rescue me from danger, Interposed His precious blood.