Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman

Name: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman
Author: Old Elizabeth

by Old Elizabeth

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2006-02-22

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Public domain in the USA.

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African Americans -- Biography Society of Friends Enslaved persons' writings, American Old Elizabeth, 1766-African American Methodists -- United States -- Biography Methodist women -- United States -- Biography Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Biography African Americans -- Religion Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century E300

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Old Elizabeth

b. 1766

Born into slavery in 1766, this early Black Christian writer left behind a brief but powerful life story. Her memoir offers a rare first-person account of faith, suffering, and freedom in early America.

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