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A Preacheress—Hicksite Quakers

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  • Title: A Preacheress—Hicksite Quakers
  • Date: May 27, 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00911
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, May 27, 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Francesca Boston Jason Stacy Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "A Preacheress—Hicksite Quakers." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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A PREACHERESS—HICKSITE QUAKERS.—

The latter are now holding their annual convention in New York, at the meeting-house in Hester street, near Elizabeth. Yesterday a preacheress, Rachel Baker,1 delivered a sermon, taking strong ground against human slavery. She said of Jesus Christ, that he was not a Saviour in the sense in which the evangelical theologians regarded him, but a great reformer.

Notes:

1. Likely Rachel Baker (b. 1794) was known as the "Sleeping Preacher" for her ability to preach lying down in a trance-like state. [back]

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