Rebecca's Revival Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World

Name: Rebecca's Revival Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
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ISBN: 9780674022577

ISBN-10: 0674022572

ISBN-13: 9780674022577

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jon F. Sensbach

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Rebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world. All but unknown today, Rebecca Protten left an enduring influence on African-American religion and society. Born in 1718, Protten had a childhood conversion experience, gained her freedom from bondage, and joined a group of German proselytizers from the Moravian Church. She embarked on an itinerant mission, preaching to hundreds of the enslaved Africans of St. Thomas, a Danish sugar colony in the West Indies. Laboring in obscurity and weathering persecution from hostile planters, Protten and other black preachers created the…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Prologue



A Baptism of Blood



Rebirth and Remembrance



A Priestly Woman



The Path



Witness



The Devil's Bargain



A Pilgrim in Europe



Christiansborg


Epilogue: Rebecca's Shadow


Abbreviations


Notes


Sources


Acknowledgments


Index