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For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics,
religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have
figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New
History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar
group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new
narrative of Southern history from its ancient past to the present.
This groundbreaking work draws on both well-established and new
currents in scholarship, including global and Atlantic world
history, histories of African diaspora, environmental history, and
more. The volume also considers the experiences of all people of
the South: Black, white, Indigenous, female, male, poor, elite, and
more. Together, the essays compose a seamless, cogent, and engaging
work that can be read cover to cover or sampled at leisure.
Contributors are Peter A. Coclanis, Gregory P. Downs, Laura F.
Edwards, Robbie Ethridge, Kari Frederickson, Paul Harvey, Kenneth
R. Janken, Martha S. Jones, Blair L. M. Kelley, Kate Masur, Michael
A. McDonnell, Scott Reynolds Nelson, Jim Rice, Natalie Ring, and
Jon F. Sensbach.
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.
In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the
Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they
hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief
Elder was Christ himself. As the community's demand for labor grew,
the Moravian Brethren bought slaves to help operate their farms,
shops, and industries. Moravians believed in the universalism of
the gospel and baptized dozens of African Americans, who became
full members of tightly knit Moravian congregations. For decades,
white and black Brethren worked and worshiped together--though
white Moravians never abandoned their belief that black slavery was
ordained by God. Based on German church documents, including dozens
of rare biographies of black Moravians, A Separate Canaan is the
first full-length study of contact between people of German and
African descent in early America. Exploring the fluidity of race in
Revolutionary era America, it highlights the struggle of African
Americans to secure their fragile place in a culture unwilling to
give them full human rights. In the early nineteenth century, white
Moravians forsook their spiritual inclusiveness, installing blacks
in a separate church. Just as white Americans throughout the new
republic rejected African American equality, the Moravian story
illustrates the power of slavery and race to overwhelm other
ideals. |The power of race to overwhelm other ideals is conveyed in
this history of N.C.'s Moravian colonists and their slaves. They
worked and worshiped together for decades, until the Moravians
installed blacks in a separate church.
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