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Rebecca's Revival - Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (Paperback, New Ed)
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Rebecca's Revival - Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (Paperback, New Ed)
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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 earliest African
Protestant congregation in the Americas. Protten's eventful
life--the recruiting of converts, an interracial marriage, a trial
on charges of blasphemy and inciting of slaves, travels to Germany
and West Africa--placed her on the cusp of an emerging
international Afro-Atlantic evangelicalism. Her career provides a
unique lens on this prophetic movement that would soon sweep
through the slave quarters of the Caribbean and North America,
radically transforming African-American culture. Jon Sensbach has
pieced together this forgotten life of a black visionary from
German, Danish, and Dutch records, including letters in Protten's
own hand, to create an astounding tale of one woman's freedom
amidst the slave trade. Protten's life, with its evangelical
efforts on three continents, reveals the dynamic relations of the
Atlantic world and affords great insight into the ways black
Christianity developed in the New World.
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