Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Tr...
Elaw, Zilpha / Blockett, Kimberly D![Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/362/36216271/CHSBZCOP0336216271.jpg)
The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist. As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha Elaw (c. 1793-1873) decided to join the upstart Methodists in 1808. She preached her first sermon a decade later, ignoring her husband and the many church leaders, clergy, and laity who tried to silence her. Elaw's memoir chronicles the first twenty years of her forty-year itinerant ministry during ma...