Front Cover: Jarena Lee (1849?). Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Best-known as a preacher and author of an autobiography, The Life and Religious Calling of Jarena Lee, A Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel, Jarena Lee’s later years have long been a mystery. In “The Many Names for Jarena Lee,” author Frederick Knight charts her descent into poverty, ultimately concluding that historians have faced diffi culties tracing her for the same reason she had trouble maintaining economic stability: her tenuous position as an African American woman in antebellum Philadelphia.

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Christina Larocco

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Rachel Moloshok

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Daniel P. Barr
Robert Morris University

Susan Branson
Syracuse University

Peter Conn
Athenaeum of Philadelphia

Carol Faulkner
Syracuse University

Kali N. Gross
Wesleyan University

Bernhard L. Herman
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Lisa Levenstein
University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Chris Magoc
Mercyhurst University

Elizabeth Milroy
Drexel University

Randall Miller
St. Joseph’s University

Edward Muller
University of Pittsburgh

Leslie Patrick
Bucknell University

Thomas Rzeznik
Seton Hall University

Francis Ryan
Rutgers University

Karim Tiro
Xavier University

Roger Simon
Lehigh University

Janneken Smucker
West Chester University

Jonathan White
Christopher Newport University

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