By Catherine A. Brekus
Drawing on a variety of assets, Catherine Brekus examines the lives of greater than 100 lady preachers--both white and African American--who crisscrossed the rustic among 1740 and 1845. Outspoken, visionary, and occasionally contentious, those ladies stepped into the pulpit lengthy earlier than twentieth-century battles over girl ordination started. They have been charismatic, renowned preachers, who spoke to countless numbers or even hundreds of thousands of individuals at camp and revival conferences, and but with yet a number of impressive exceptions--such as Sojourner Truth--these girls have basically vanished from our background. convalescing their tales, Brekus exhibits, forces us to reconsider lots of our universal assumptions approximately eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American culture.
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