Julia A J Foote (Q490793)
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Julia A J Foote
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Evangelist
Autobiographer / Memoirist
African Methodist Episcopal Clergy
Free before 13th Amendment. Though excommunicated from a Boston church because of her public evangelizing, Foote continued traveling widely as a preacher and eventually became the first woman to be ordained a deacon in the AME Zion Church. Published an autobiography called A Brand Plucked from the Fire https://archive.org/details/brandpluckedfrom00footrich/page/n5 (1879).