This Far By Faith brings together a collection of essays on the religious identities and experiences of African-American women. Spanning from the period of slavery to the present, the essays profile American figures such as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Willie Mae Ford Smith, exploring the role that religious institutions and impulses played in their lives.
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This collection of essays offers a profound introduction to the complex role of religion in the lives of African American women. Newman and Weisenfeld have edited the definitive collection of African-American women's religious biography yet published.
–Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
A powerful collection of biographies which will help readers locate and appreciate the struggles of these foresisters.
– Waterwheel
–Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
A powerful collection of biographies which will help readers locate and appreciate the struggles of these foresisters.
– Waterwheel
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Judith Weisenfeld is Assistant Professor of Religion at Barnard College. Richard Newman is with the DuBois Institute, Harvard University.
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Only two quilts from the hand of Harriet Powers, a black American woman, are known, but each is in the possession of a major museum. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sojourner Truth, New York, Miss Lucie, United States, North Carolina, Episcopal Church, New Jersey, Laura Kofey, Sara Stanley, National Baptist Convention, Mary Bethune, Battle Creek, South Carolina, Willie Mae Ford Smith, Civil War, Mother Smith, American Missionary Association, General Conference, George Whipple, Reorganized Church, Amy Robbins, Harriet Powers, Spelinan Messenger, William Dargan, Northampton Association New!
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Only two quilts from the hand of Harriet Powers, a black American woman, are known, but each is in the possession of a major museum. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sojourner Truth, New York, Miss Lucie, United States, North Carolina, Episcopal Church, New Jersey, Laura Kofey, Sara Stanley, National Baptist Convention, Mary Bethune, Battle Creek, South Carolina, Willie Mae Ford Smith, Civil War, Mother Smith, American Missionary Association, General Conference, George Whipple, Reorganized Church, Amy Robbins, Harriet Powers, Spelinan Messenger, William Dargan, Northampton Association New!
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- The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth on 4 pages
- Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century (Religion in North America) by William L. Andrews on 4 pages
- The Black Abolitionist Papers: Vol. I: The British Isles, 1830-1865 by C. Peter (ed.) Ripley on page 253, page 272, and page 278
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sojourner Truth on page 222, page 252, and page 278
- For My People by Margaret Walker in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979 by Bettye Collier-Thomas on 5 pages
- Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies) by Marla F. Frederick in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Can I Get a Witness?: Prophetic Religious Voices of African American Women : An Anthology by Marcia Y. Riggs on page 24, page 91, and page 163
- Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists by Priscilla Pope-Levison in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition (2nd Edition) by Barbara J. MacHaffie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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