The Life of Walatta-Petros: A Seventeenth-Century Biography of an African Woman, Concise Edition

The Life of Walatta-Petros: A Seventeenth-Century Biography of an African Woman, Concise Edition (Princeton University Press) is a rich, rare biography of an African woman from the 18th century written by disciples after her death. An Ethiopian saint, Walatta Petros led successful nonviolent resistance against European Jesuits who tried to convert Africans, who were adherents of a different branch of Christianity.