Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826214673 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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In nineteenth-century America, many black women left their homes, their husbands, and their children to spread the Word of God. She analyzes how these four women employed rhetorical and political devices in their narratives, using religious discourse to deconstruct race, class, and gender issues of the nineteenth century.By exploring how religious beliefs become an avenue for creating alternative ideologies, Prophesying Daughters will appeal to students and scholars of African American literature, women’s studies, and religious studies.. They dealt with domestic ideologies that positioned them as subservient in the home, and with racist ideologies that positioned them as naturally inferior to whites. Descendants of slaves or former “slave girls” themselves, they traveled all over the country, even abroad, preaching to audiences composed of va
"After this I shall pour my spirit on all mankind: / your sons and your daughters will prophesy. I shall pour out my spirit in those days even on slaves and slave-girls."— From Joel 2:28-29
Revealing look at four strong churchwomen Reginald D. Garrard The years leading up to the Civil War and the ones that preceded it were a time of great change in America. In those pre-days, some recently freed slaves, as well as those in bondage, were covertly and overtly expressing their religious beliefs and their political views on their condiditon of servitude.These four remarkable women were vocal in their opposition to the male hierarchy of the church, the "expected" role of women in the body of believers, and the confines of slavery as imposed on African-Americans. Such op