Boston : The University of Massachusetts Press, 1981 . Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. viii + 368 pp. 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. Gifts of power : the writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black visionary, Shaker eldress Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The turning point of Jackson’s life journey from enslavement to freedom starts with the “divine voice” calling her. Id 5857536 Id SCSB-7070328 Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. In “Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson,” Alice Walker traces the spiritual pursuit of Rebecca Jackson, whom Walker calls a womanist. Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795–1871) was a free Black woman, best known for her religious activism and for her autobiography.. Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. Biography. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. For some reason, he was never able to produce a complete, edited manuscript. In 1980, Rebecca’s writings were published in a single volume, called “Gifts of Power.” Also after her death, Alonzo G. Hollister, a Shaker leader, collected her writings (including an incomplete narrative of her life) and interviewed Philadelphia family members. 1st ed. She married Samuel S. Jackson and worked as a seamstress until she had a religious awakening during a thunderstorm in 1830. Edited with an Introduction by Jean McMahon Humez. Edited by Jean McMahon Humez. Orig. The item Gifts of power : the writings of Rebecca Jackson, black visionary, Shaker eldress, edited, with an introduction, by Jean McMahon Humez represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Gifts of power : the writings of Rebecca Jackson, black visionary, Shaker eldress, edited, with Gifts of power [electronic resource] : the writings of Rebecca Jackson, black visionary, Shaker eldress / edited, with an introduction, by Jean McMahon Humez. Item #78060 JACKSON, Rebecca. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1981. SOURCES Rebecca Cox Jackson PBS.org: Rebecca Cox Jackson Women in History Ohio: Rebecca Jackson By Richard E. Williams. Today in SMYAL’s #WomensHistoryMonth series: Rebecca Cox Jackson Rebecca Cox Jackson was a minister and religious activist who co-founded a Black Shaker religious community with her partner Rebecca Perot in Philadelphia during the 1800s. ATLA … Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson (1981) 12 ALICE WALKER Womanist (1983) 19 ALICE WALKER 2 Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi’s African Womanism 21 Womanism: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Black Female Novel in English (1985) 21 CHIKWENYE OKONJO OGUNYEMI 3 Clenora Hudson-Weems’s Africana Womanism 37 Ownership signature Adelaide Cromwell Gulliver on front free endpaper. 0.00. Rebecca Jackson remained virtually unknown until her manuscripts were rediscovered and published in 1980 as Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. Illus., portraits, map. 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. 348 pp. Gifts of power : the writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black visionary, Shaker eldress by , unknown edition, Near fine in very good d/j. The unburying of Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871) is a timely and $20.00. Rebecca Cox was born on February 15, 1795 in Hornstown, Pennsylvania into a free family. Edited by Dorschner Cheryl. viii,368pp. - Called and Chosen: The Story of Mother Rebecca Jackson and the Philadelphia Shakers.
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