Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress

by Rebecca Jackson and Jean McMahon Humez

A free black woman in antebellum America, Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871) was an independent itinerant preacher and religious visionary who founded a Shaker community in Philadelphia that survived her death by twenty-five years. Gifts of powers containers her complete extant writings, covering the period 1830 to 1864.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870235656
• ISBN13: 9780870235658
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher