2, pp. An influential Shaker and founder of her own Shaker community in Philadelphia, Jackson recounted her visions and mediumship in her autobiography, "Gifts of Power." 10, No. 348 pp. Rebecca Cox Jackson, a free black woman born in Pennsylvania in 1795, began seeing visions as a child, and attributed her ability to read and write to the divine power of God. While still a young child, Jackson became responsible for caring for her two younger siblings. Rebecca Cox was born to Jane Wisson (or Wilson), a free black woman who married at least twice before dying in 1808. (1995). THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS of Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871), which appear here in print for the first time, are centrally concerned with how religious vision and ecstatic experience functioned for her and other women of her time as a source of personal power, enabling them to make radical change in the outward circumstances of their lives. Her older brother Joseph Cox was a local preacher and held several offices for the AME denomination including that of elder. Rebecca never knew her father. Rebecca Jackson, Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress, ed. The novel was adapted into a film in 1985 and into a Broadway musical in 2005. Jackson's journals are preserved in Jean McMahon Humez' "Gifts Of Power" which collects the writings of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson, whose career as preacher and Shaker leader spanned from 1830 until her death in 1871. Initially, she was affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Jean McMahon Humez (University of Massachusetts Press: 1981) Jarena Lee, Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel (Pantianos Classics: 2017, 1836) 2. --Dust jacket. $20.00. REBECCA COX JACKSON b. February 15, 1795 d. 1871. The unburying of Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871) is a timely and Amherst: University of … Rebecca Cox Jackson, a younger contemporary of Jarena Lee, was born in 1795 near Philadelphia. She began preaching in her community and attained a following of men and women, and criticism of established churches. LINK TO EXCERPT . Rebecca Cox was born on February 15, 1795 in Hornstown, Pennsylvania into a free family. from Gifts of Power . Rebecca Cox Jackson is the author of Gifts of Power (0.0 avg rating, 0 ratings, 0 reviews) REVIEW ESSAY: Rebecca Cox Jackson and the Uses of Power GIFTS OF POWER: THE WRITINGS OF REBECCA JACKSON, BLACK VISIONARY, SHAKER ELDRESS, edited by Jean McMahon Humez. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. ... Jackson, Rebecca Cox. Rebecca Jackson (nee Cox) was born in Pennsylvania as a free black woman and raised by her mother and grandmother during her first several years of life. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. 21-38. Jackson was a nineteenth-century African American minister who founded a Shaker community in Philadelphia. of the term womanist appears in Walker’s 1981 review of Rebecca Cox Jackson’s Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson. Gifts of powers containers her complete extant writings, covering the period 1830 to 1864." "A free black woman in antebellum America, Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871) was an independent itinerant preacher and religious visionary who founded a Shaker community in Philadelphia that survived her death by twenty-five years. Womanist Parables in Gifts of Power: The Autobiography of Rebecca Cox Jackson. Jean McMahon Humez' "Gifts Of Power" collects the writings of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson, whose career as preacher and Shaker leader spanned from 1830 until her death in 1871. She married Samuel S. Jackson and worked as a seamstress until she had a religious awakening during a thunderstorm in 1830.
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