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Memoirs of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw

Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels and Labours

Zilpha Elaw · 1790–1873

  • 12 chapters
  • 4 hr 25 min read
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Dedication

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A free Black woman from Pennsylvania tells how God found her: a girl in service with a Quaker family, converted by a vision of Christ, sanctified at a camp meeting, and called to preach against the protests of her husband, her church and her own fears. Widowed, she travelled the slave states, New England and then England itself, preaching more than a thousand sermons there. Written in London in 1846 and dedicated to the English friends who heard her, it is a fervent record of holiness, hardship and a call she would not deny.

I WAS born in the United States of America, in the State of Pennsylvania, and of religious parents. When about six years of age, my mother’s parents, who resided on their own farm, far in the interior of America, at a distance of many hundred miles, came to visit
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Contents · 12 chapters · 4 hr 25 min read

  1. 1 Dedication 5 min
  2. 2 Childhood, Conversion and Marriage 26 min
  3. 3 Sanctification and a Sister's Death 26 min
  4. 4 The Call to Preach 24 min
  5. 5 Widowhood and the First Journeys 14 min
  6. 6 Baltimore, Washington and the Slave States 31 min
  7. 7 New York, New Haven and Hartford 21 min
  8. 8 Boston, Cape Cod and Salem 19 min
  9. 9 Maine and Nantucket 31 min
  10. 10 Last Years in America 17 min
  11. 11 England: London, Yorkshire and Lancashire 34 min
  12. 12 Newcastle, Shields and a Farewell 17 min

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Public domain. Source text from the original edition.

Robert S. Duncanson, “View of Lake Pepin, Minnesota” (1862). The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0.

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Zilpha Elaw, Memoirs of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw (Ochorus), https://ochorus.com/books/memoirs-of-mrs-zilpha-elaw/.
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@book{elawmemoirs, author = {Elaw, Zilpha}, title = {{Memoirs of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw}}, publisher = {Ochorus}, url = {https://ochorus.com/books/memoirs-of-mrs-zilpha-elaw/} }