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

by Zilpha Elaw

Book Overview

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"