Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century
William L. Andrews was born in He earned his B.A. from Davidson College in He received his M.A. in and Ph.D. in , respectively, from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he is currently the E. Maynard Adams Professor of English. His first book, The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt, published in , deals with a seminal figure in the development of African American and Southern American prose fiction. While researching To Tell a Free Story, a history of African American autobiography up to , Andrews became greatly interested in autobiography studies. Since he has been the general editor of a book series, titled Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography, which is published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Since the mid's he has done a considerable amount of editing of African American and southern literature and criticism. The fruition of this work has been The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, published in , The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, also published in , and The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, three big c
Zilpha Elaw ()
Zilpha Elaw was born in to free black parents in Pennsylvania. One of twenty-two children, she was raised in a strong Christian home until age twelve, when her mother unexpectedly passed away and young Zilpha was sent to live with Pierson and Rebecca Mitchell, a Quaker couple who became her adoptive parents. Amidst this instability, she embraced the Methodist tradition and became a member of the church as a teenager.
At twenty, Zilpha married Joseph Elaw, who worked as a fuller (a trade that softened raw cloth using urine) in Burlington, New Jersey. The couple’s only daughter, Rebecca, was born a few years before Zilpha suffered the loss of Hannah, her older sister. It was Hannah’s deathbed premonition of her sister preaching that encouraged Zilpha Elaw to preach her first sermon at a camp meeting in She hid this calling from Joseph for a time.
Things changed in when Joseph Elaw succumbed to illness, leaving behind an eleven-year-old Rebecca and her mother, who felt the call to preach again. Transitioning out of her role as a stay-at-home mother, Zilpha threw herself into service. For nearly two decades, she worked as a domestic servant to provide for her daugh
Collection inventory
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| Creator: | Wood, William, fl. |
| Title: | William Wood Letter Concerning Zilpha Elaw |
| Inclusive Dates: | |
| Quantity: | 1 folder (SC) |
| Abstract: | Letter from William Wood of Manchester, England, to Peter Macy of Nantucket, Massachusetts, regarding the African American evangelist Zilpha Elaw. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY |
Biographical History
Zilpha Elaw (?) was an African American evangelist. She began preaching the gospel in America in after attending a revival meeting, and for nearly twenty years she traveled the country -- both North and South -- as an evangelical speaker. In she departed for England, bearing a letter of reference from Peter Macy, vice president of the antislavery society of Nantucket, Massachusetts. There she continued her evangelical activities until her death in or thereabouts. Her autobiography, Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, an American Female of Color, was published in London in
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Zilpha Elaw: Sanctifying Power
During the eighteenth century, the United States was not a particularly welcoming place for women looking to speak their minds—especially not African American women looking to speak their minds. But that did not stop God from blessing strong women to speak his words to people who needed to hear. Zilpha Elaw was one such woman.
Born free in in Pennsylvania, Elaw’s life was marked by a deep assurance of God’s presence, which societal structures could not prevent. In Elaw, we see a woman daring enough to follow God’s call no matter where it took her.
When Elaw’s parents died when she was twelve, she went to live with a Quaker family. It was during this time that Elaw attended her first revivalist camp meeting. While milking her cow one day, she had a vision of Jesus. From then on, Elaw lived boldly in the certainty of her salvation. Elaw’s preaching was powered by a steadfast reliance on the Holy Spirit’s power in her life.
It was Elaw’s reliance on the Holy Spirit that shaped one of her most central tenets, that is, her belief in the transformative power of sanctification. It wasn’t until her vision that she truly felt the Holy Spirit moving in h
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