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Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw Jerry Remy cultivating the cultural capital thatThe remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist. As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha Elaw (c. 1793 1873) decided to join the upstart Methodists in 1808. She preached her first sermon a decade later, ignoring her husband and the many church leaders, clergy, and laity who tried to silence her. Elaw's memoir chronicles the first twenty years of her forty year itinerant ministry during massive