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Jarena Lee Quotes

1783–1864 United States

Jarena Lee (11 February 1783 – 3 February 1864) was the first woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). In 1836, Lee became the first African American woman to publish her autobiography.

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“If the man may preach, because the Savior died for him, why not the woman, seeing he died for her also? Is he not a whole Savior, instead of a half one, as those who hold it wrong for a woman to preach, would seem to make it appear?”

The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (1836)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jarena Lee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.