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Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845

Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845

Brekus, Catherine a.

Paperback

Series: Gender and American Culture

General ChristianityRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)Women's Studies

ISBN10: 0807847453
ISBN13: 9780807847459
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Dec 7 1998
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.32 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; Old Elizabeth, an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 1827 and 1844 -- these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America.

Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Brekus examines the lives of more than a hundred female preachers -- both white and African American -- who crisscrossed the country between 1740 and 1845. Outspoken, visionary, and sometimes contentious, these women stepped into the pulpit long before twentieth-century battles over female ordination began. They were charismatic, popular preachers, who spoke to hundreds and even thousands of people at camp and revival meetings, and yet with but a few notable exceptions -- such as Sojourner Truth -- these women have essentially vanished from our history. Recovering their stories, Brekus shows, forces us to rethink many of our common assumptions about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American culture.

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