In a time when women were denied the right to preach across most of Christianity, Lee was fiercely certain about her calling and asked Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for permission to spread the Good Word. She was denied. Eight years later, in 1819, he changed his mind after hearing her speak. Even with his blessing, the challenges of being a Black female minister were many but she was ultra serious about her mission: Lee travelled to most of her engagements on foot and, in one year alone, preached 178 sermons across 2,325 miles.
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