Rebecca Cox Jackson was a free black woman who became an elder in the Shaker religion, which was founded by Mother Ann Lee before the Revolutionary War. In 1859, when Jackson was 35, she underwent a religious conversion ceremony, after which she became a preacher and established a black Shaker community in Philadelphia. Jackson was […]
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