Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee : giving an account of her call to preach the gospel / revised and corrected from the original manuscript, written by herself.
Call Number
2022-0043N
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcw0892r16k
Publisher
Philadelphia : Printed and published for the author, 1849.
Language
English
Date Created
1849-1836
Extent
97 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 19 cm
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary ownership signature "Mrs. Hamiltons Book" to front pastedown below the signature of another "Mrs. E. M. -----." Erased early pencil markings to verso of front endpaper.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Later edition of the first autobiography published by an African American woman.
Published Philadelphia, 1836, under title: The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee.
Binding Note
Bound in brown cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated in blind.

Discovery Information

Subject
Lee, Jarena 1783-
African Methodist Episcopal Church—Clergy—Biography
African American clergy—Biography
Women clergy—United States—Biography
Autobiographies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

Institutional Information

Collection
Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c62ae2e2-7b15-47e9-9dbc-84610e7be570/manifest