Rebecca Cox Jackson

Rebecca Cox Jackson

Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871) was an African-American free woman, best known for her religious activism and for her autobiography.

Biography

Born into a free family [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p247.html Africans in America/Part 3/Rebecca Cox Jackson ] ] , she married Samuel S. Jackson and worked as a seamstress until she had a religious awakening during a thunderstorm in 1830. She got divorced after her husband failed to teach her to read and write, and later realised she was able to do both anyway. Whilst travelling from church to church, she came upon and decided to join the Shakers in Watervliet, New York. However she returned to Philadelphia to live with Rebecca Perot for six years, up until she went back to Watervliet, where she ended her life as Eldress of her own family of (predominately black and female) Shakers in Philadelphia.

Her autobiography, although written between 1830 and 1864, was only published in 1981."The Signifying Monkey", by Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Oxford University Press, hardcover, page 241]

Bibliography

*"Gifts of Power:The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress"

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