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Bookmark or Share- Public Universal Friend - WikipediaThe Public Universal Friend [a] (born Jemima Wilkinson; November 29, 1752 – July 1, 1819) was an American preacher born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, to Quaker parents.
- Meet The Public Universal Friend: The Colonial Prophet ...When Jemima Wilkinson survived a near-fatal fever in 1776, she was reborn a genderless prophet of God named the Public Universal Friend.
- Public Universal Friend : Throughline - NPRThe Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America by Paul Benjamin Moyer A genderless prophet drew hundreds of followers long before the age of ...
- Jemima Wilkinson | Biography & Facts | BritannicaJemima Wilkinson (born November 29, 1752, Cumberland, Rhode Island [U.S.]—died July 1, 1819, near present-day Penn Yan, New York, U.S.) was an American religious leader who founded an unorthodox Christian sect, the Universal Friends, many of whose adherents declared her a messiah.
- Life Story: The Public Universal Friend - Women & the ...Most of these books refused to use the Friend’s chosen name, calling them Jemima Wilkinson. It is only in the last decade that scholars have started to reconsider the story of the Public Universal Friend and how it fits into the larger history of gender roles and identity in the United States.
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