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These narratives by four famous black woman preachers and evangelists, published between 1835 and 1907, all share a theme that continues to dominate Afro-American literature even today: the power of Christianity to give strength and comfort in the struggle for liberation from caste and gender restrictions.

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These itinerant black women preachers whose autobiographies occasionally read like travelogue? * or in the case of Maria Stewart, a mournful adieu upon embarkatio?were living out on the geographical landscape the metaphor of their psychic and spiritual journey, were literalizing the quest for a locus of freedom...Sue E. Houchins, in her Introduction *

Spiritual Narratives

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    A Hardback by Jarena Lee, Jarena Lee, Julia A. J. Foote

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 7/28/1988 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780195052664, 978-0195052664
      ISBN10: 0195052668
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      Literature: history and criticism History of religion Spirituality and religious experience

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      These narratives by four famous black woman preachers and evangelists, published between 1835 and 1907, all share a theme that continues to dominate Afro-American literature even today: the power of Christianity to give strength and comfort in the struggle for liberation from caste and gender restrictions.

      Trade Review
      These itinerant black women preachers whose autobiographies occasionally read like travelogue? * or in the case of Maria Stewart, a mournful adieu upon embarkatio?were living out on the geographical landscape the metaphor of their psychic and spiritual journey, were literalizing the quest for a locus of freedom...Sue E. Houchins, in her Introduction *

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