Little is known of the early life of Rebecca Cox Jackson, a black woman who became an eldress in the Shaker religion and founded a Shaker community in Philadelphia. Rebecca was born in 1795 to a free ...
NAFMAIN copy 39088019408863 a replacement, ordered through Gobi, paid with Ripley Endowment. "Rebecca Cox Jackson was a free black preacher and religious visionary in Antebellum America. After ...