Outspoken, visionary, and sometimes contentious, these women stepped into the pulpit long before twentieth-century battles over female ordination began. Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license "Old Elizabeth," an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 18 - these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America.ĭrawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Brekus examines the lives of more than a hundred female preachers - both white and African American - who crisscrossed the country between 17.
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