Quincy D Newell

Your Sister in the Gospel

The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon

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Produktbeschreibung

Your Sister in the Gospel is the first scholarly biography of Jane Manning James or, for that matter, any black Mormon. Quincy D. Newell chronicles the life of this remarkable yet largely unknown figure and reveals why James's story changes our understanding of American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199338665
• ISBN-10: 0199338663
• Artikelnr.: 53934818

Autorenporträt

Quincy D. Newell is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College. She has published several books and essays on the experiences of religious and racial/ethnic minorities in the American West. Among other honors, Newell received the 2018 Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize from the American Society of Church History and the 2017 Best Article in Mormon Women's History prize from the Mormon History Association for her work on Jane James.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Cast of Characters
Introduction
Chapter 1: When a Child (ca. 1820-1843)
Chapter 2: We Walked (ca. 1842-1843)
Chapter 3: The Beautiful Nauvoo (1843-1844)
Chapter 4: We got Along Splendid (1844-1848)
Chapter 5: Isaac James, Wife and Children (1847-ca. 1870)
Chapter 6: Desired to Do Right (1870-1877)
Chapter 7: Is There No Blessing for Me? (ca. 1880-1894)
Chapter 8: That Was Faith (ca. 1892-1908)
Chapter 9: I try in My Feeble Way to Set a Good Example for All (1908-present)
Epilogue
Appendix: Primary Sources
Bibliography
Index