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Vocation: Claiming and being claimed
By Bill Leonard In 1836 a free black woman paid $38 to print 1,000 copies of her autobiography titled The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee, A Coloured Lady. It is the first autobiography of an African-American woman to be published in America. Lee tells of her spiritual pilgrimage, including her 1804 conversion and...
Bill Leonard, Senior Columnist