Amid political innovation and social transformation, Revolutionary America was also fertile ground for Religious upheaval, as self-proclaimed visionaries and prophets established new Religious sects throughout the emerging nation.
Born in 1752 and raised in a Quaker household in Cumberland, Rhode Island, Wilkinson began her ministry dramatically in 1776 when, in the midst of an illness, she announced her ow.
Among the most influential and controversial of these figures was Jemima Wilkinson.
Amid political innovation and social transformation, Revolutionary America was also fertile ground for Religious upheaval, as self-proclaimed visionaries and prophets established new Religious sects throughout the emerging nation