Dorothy Ripley
Dorothy Ripley (1767–1831) was a British
evangelist, who went to America in 1801 and died in 1831 in Virginia. She was a
Quaker by confession, but had been raised a
Methodist. She traveled thousands of miles in the United States and Britain as an effective evangelist on the
camp meeting circuit. She ministered to many of the disenfranchised, including the
Oneida people, men and women in prison, and African slaves in the
Southern United States. She self-published six times; three of her books received a second printing. Ripley crossed the
Atlantic Ocean at least nine times, mostly traveling alone. At her death a newspaper obituary termed her "perhaps the most extraordinary woman in the world."
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