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Rebecca Cox Jackson

1795–1871

United States

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Rebecca Cox Jackson (February 15, 1795 – May 24, 1871) was a free Black woman, known for her religious feminism and activism and her writing. Her autobiography was published in 1981 as Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress, edited by Jean McMahon Humez. Jackson worked as a seamstress and cared for her brother's children until her religious awakening in 1830.

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