Prophesying daughters Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 / [electronic resource] :
Chanta M. Haywood.
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.
- xiii, 144 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-137) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
African American women clergy--History--19th century. African American women clergy--History--20th century. Prophecy--Christianity--History.