title: Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Womens Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century (Religion in North America)
author: WILLIAM L ANDREWS
description: Andrews, a University of Wisconsin English professor, has collected the spiritual autobiographies of Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw and Julia Foote, who preached the gospel from 1836 to 1879 and were pioneers as women, preachers and blacks at a time when slavery was ending in the U.S. These memoirs chronicle difficult childhoods, religious conversions in revival camp meetings and adult lives dedicated to saving souls across black and white America. While some readers may find the evangelical language slow going, these texts remain important documents of racial and feminist radicalism in American religious life. <br />Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Elizabeth Sara Sheppard
  
  
  ### Anonymous
  
  
  
  
  
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  YOU ask from me some particulars of the valued life so recently closed. Miss
  Sheppard was my friend of many
  
  
  years; I was with her to the last hour of her existence; but this is not the
  time for other than a brief notice of her
  
  
  career, and I comply with your request by sending you a slight memorial,
  hardly full enough for publication.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Elizabeth Sara Sheppard, the authoress of "Charles Auchester," "Counterparts,"
  etc., was born at Blackheath, in
  
  
  England. Her father was a clergyman of unusual scholastic attainments, and
  took high honors at St. John's
  
  
  College, Oxford. Mr. Sheppard, on the mother's side, could number Hebrew
  ancestors, and this was the pride
  
  
  of his second daughter, the subject of th