Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century

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Title

Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century

This edition

"Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century" . Ed. William L. Andrews. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986. x+245 pp.

Table of contents

● Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein / Preface
● Marilyn Richardson / Forward
● Acknowledgments
● Introduction
● Textual Note
I.
● Jarena Lee / The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee
II.
● Zilpha Elaw / Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels and Labors of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw
III.
● Julia A. J. Foote / A Brand Plucked from the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Julia A. J. Foote

● Notes

Reviews and notices of anthology


• n/a

Commentary on anthology


• "Andrews, the foremost scholar of African-American autobiography, presents the spiritual narratives of Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote" (Kinnamon 1997: 479).

Cited in


Kinnamon 1997: 479]

Item Number

A0232

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