In her now classic, White Women's Christ, Black Women's Jesus, Jacquelyn Grant outlined the racial issues separating Black and White women in the Christian churches, and proposed a radical image of theological redemption. Martin Luther King, Jr. eloquently articulated the differences between Blacks and Whites, and offered a compelling vision of beloved community. Frances Watkins Harper, a deeply religious, African-American abolitionist of the 19th century, anticipated both Grant and King, when she challenged racial separation in America by working with the White anti-slavery women of Maine. During her lecture tour in the mid-1850s, she called her Maine Christian colleagues to participate in a process of mutual respect and recognition—something I like to call a ‘complex mirror of identity’. Slavery’s web of oppression, which she and they experienced differently, would be exposed and uprooted only as they stepped forward to acknowledge that their identities were intertwined. My project elaborates the practical theology that underlies this process of mutual recognition. It focuses on the distinctive way in which Harper’s Christological and pneumatological outlook subverts the gender conventions and racial stereotypes of her day, and illuminates our own struggles to build coalitions in and across the church, the academy, and the community.