Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1981. viii,368pp. Near fine in very good d/j. 348 pp. Item #78060 JACKSON, Rebecca. She married Samuel S. Jackson and worked as a seamstress until she had a religious awakening during a thunderstorm in 1830. Boston : The University of Massachusetts Press, 1981 . Gifts of power [electronic resource] : the writings of Rebecca Jackson, black visionary, Shaker eldress / edited, with an introduction, by Jean McMahon Humez. Ownership signature Adelaide Cromwell Gulliver on front free endpaper. 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. - Called and Chosen: The Story of Mother Rebecca Jackson and the Philadelphia Shakers. 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. By Richard E. Williams. Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795–1871) was a free Black woman, best known for her religious activism and for her autobiography.. Edited by Jean McMahon Humez. $20.00. The turning point of Jackson’s life journey from enslavement to freedom starts with the “divine voice” calling her. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. viii + 368 pp. 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. Gifts of power : the writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black visionary, Shaker eldress by , unknown edition, Biography. Id 5857536 Id SCSB-7070328 Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. 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 Gifts of power : the writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black visionary, Shaker eldress Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. 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 Illus., portraits, map. Rebecca Cox was born on February 15, 1795 in Hornstown, Pennsylvania into a free family. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. SOURCES Rebecca Cox Jackson PBS.org: Rebecca Cox Jackson Women in History Ohio: Rebecca Jackson Edited by Dorschner Cheryl. The unburying of Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871) is a timely and ATLA … 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. 0.00. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. For some reason, he was never able to produce a complete, edited manuscript. Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. 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. Edited with an Introduction by Jean McMahon Humez. In “Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson,” Alice Walker traces the spiritual pursuit of Rebecca Jackson, whom Walker calls a womanist. 1st ed. Orig.