Gifts of Power
The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress
Edited by Jean M. Humez
University of Massachusetts Press
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. Gifts of powers containers her complete extant writings, covering the period 1830 to 1864.
