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Prophesying daughters Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 /

Haywood, Chanta M., 1968-

Prophesying daughters Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 / [electronic resource] : Chanta M. Haywood. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003. - xiii, 144 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-137) and index.

The prophesying daughters : biographical and historical background -- The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history -- Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust -- Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives -- Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation -- Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism--the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet -- Can I get a witness? : the implications of prophesying for African American literary studies.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






African American women clergy--History--19th century.
African American women clergy--History--20th century.
Prophecy--Christianity--History.


Electronic books.

BR563.N4 / H39 2003

251/.0082/0973

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