
Published Philadelphia, 1836, under title: The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee.
Full title
Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel
Language
en
Duration
~4 hours (273K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Jarena Lee, 1836,pubdate 1849.
Credits
Mary Glenn Krause and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2021-12-16
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1783–1864
A pioneering Black preacher, Jarena Lee became the first woman authorized to preach in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and turned her life story into one of the earliest published spiritual autobiographies by an African American woman.
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