Prophesying daughters : Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 / Chanta M. Haywood.
2003
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Prophesying daughters : Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 / Chanta M. Haywood.
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Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2003]
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©2003
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xiii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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The prophesying daughters : biographical and historical background
The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history
Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust
Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives
Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation
Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism
the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet
Can I get a witness? : the implications of prophesying for African American literary studies.
The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history
Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust
Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives
Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation
Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism
the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet
Can I get a witness? : the implications of prophesying for African American literary studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-137) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0826214673 alkaline paper
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