The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

1 total work

Spiritual Narratives

by Maria W. Stewart, Jarena Lee, Julia A J Foote, and Virginia W Broughton

Published 28 July 1988

These narratives by four famous black woman preachers and evangelists, published between 1835 and 1907, all share a theme that continues to dominate Afro-American literature even today: the power of Christianity to give strength and comfort in the struggle for liberation from caste and gender restrictions.