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The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian History, 1868-1967
Nina Reid-Maroney
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Description for The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian History, 1868-1967
Hardcover.
This first scholarly treatment of a fascinating and understudied figure offers a unique and powerful view of nearly one hundred years of the struggle for freedom in North America. After her conversion at a Baptist revival at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening in 1909 she stood before a group of Free Will Baptist preachers in the small town of Goblesville, Michigan, and was received into ordained ... Read more
This first scholarly treatment of a fascinating and understudied figure offers a unique and powerful view of nearly one hundred years of the struggle for freedom in North America. After her conversion at a Baptist revival at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening in 1909 she stood before a group of Free Will Baptist preachers in the small town of Goblesville, Michigan, and was received into ordained ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580464475
SKU
V9781580464475
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian History, 1868-1967
Winner of the Ontario Historical Society's 2013 Alison Prentice Award, which recognizes the best book on women's history in Ontario published in the past three years.
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The Reverend Jennie Johnson tells the story of a remarkable figure whose varied accomplishments represent an important legacy for black history in Ontario and an example for women's rights. Reid-Maroney's account ... Read more
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The Reverend Jennie Johnson tells the story of a remarkable figure whose varied accomplishments represent an important legacy for black history in Ontario and an example for women's rights. Reid-Maroney's account ... Read more