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

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1998 - Social Science - 466 pages
Catherine Brekus tells the story of several generations of women - both white and African American - who struggled to forge an enduring tradition of female religious leadership in colonial and antebellum America. Piecing together evidence from a wide rang

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About the author (1998)

CATHERINE A. BREKUS is associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School and author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (from the University of North Carolina Press).

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