While reading these chapters, particularly the latter, I thought of Catherine Brekus's *Sarah Osborn's World*. In telling Osborn's story, Brekus details the many channels and forms that the religious work of early American women took (in part because formal access to the pulpit is mostly off-limits to them).

Thinking of Phillis Wheatley as doing *evangelical* work as a young poet/a young woman/a young enslaved person invites us to think of Phillis Wheatley as working in the tradition of female preaching, working in the same world, in fact as Sarah Osborn -- whose own relationship to race and slavery was of course quite complicated.

I am looking forward to thinking more about these two works together alongside each other.

#SarahOsborn
#FemalePreaching
#GreatAwakening #PhillisWheatley

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