Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw

(Part of the Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture Series)

by Zilpha Elaw

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The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist.

As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha Elaw (c. 1793-1873) decided to join the upstart Methodists in 1808. She preached her first sermon a decade later, ignoring her husband and the many church leaders, clergy, and laity who tried to silence her. Elaw's memoir chronicles the first twenty years of her forty-year itinerant...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1952271274

ISBN13:9781952271274

Release Date:December 2021

Publisher:West Virginia University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.67 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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