Sarah Parsons Moorhead

Sarah Parsons Moorhead
NationalityAmerican
Known for
Notable workTo the Reverend James Davenport on His Departure from Boston by Way of a Dream
SpouseRev. John Moorhead
ChildrenMary Moorhead

Sarah Parsons Moorhead (died December 1774)[1] was an American poet, artist, and polemicist active during the Great Awakening in the 18th century. Her poems critique the itinerant ministers of the Great Awakening and demonstrate the emergence of women's voices during that time.

  1. ^ Slauter, Eric (2013), Lugo-Ortiz, Agnes; Rosenthal, Angela (eds.), "Looking for Scipio Moorhead: An "African Painter" in Revolutionary North America", Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 89–116, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139021845.005, ISBN 978-1-107-00439-9, retrieved 2023-11-29, page 109.