LEADER 03565nam 2200517 a 450 001 996247915803316 005 20210108010717.0 010 $a0-674-26724-9 010 $a0-674-04345-6 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674043459 035 $a(dli)HEB04588 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396497 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300000 035 $a(DE-B1597)574364 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674043459 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396497 100 $a20040729d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRebecca's revival$b[electronic resource] $ecreating Black Christianity in the Atlantic world /$fJon F. Sensbach 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2005 215 $a302 p. $cill., map ;$d22 cm 311 $a0-674-01689-0 311 $a0-674-02257-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-293) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue -- $t1. A Baptism of Blood -- $t2. Rebirth and Remembrance -- $t3. A Priestly Woman -- $t4. The Path -- $t5. Witness -- $t6. The Devil?s Bargain -- $t7. A Pilgrim in Europe -- $t8. Christiansborg -- $tEpilogue: Rebecca?s Shadow -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tSources -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aRebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world. All but unknown today, Rebecca Protten left an enduring influence on African-American religion and society. Born in 1718, Protten had a childhood conversion experience, gained her freedom from bondage, and joined a group of German proselytizers from the Moravian Church. She embarked on an itinerant mission, preaching to hundreds of the enslaved Africans of St. Thomas, a Danish sugar colony in the West Indies. Laboring in obscurity and weathering persecution from hostile planters, Protten and other black preachers created the earliest African Protestant congregation in the Americas. Protten's eventful life--the recruiting of converts, an interracial marriage, a trial on charges of blasphemy and inciting of slaves, travels to Germany and West Africa--placed her on the cusp of an emerging international Afro-Atlantic evangelicalism. Her career provides a unique lens on this prophetic movement that would soon sweep through the slave quarters of the Caribbean and North America, radically transforming African-American culture. Jon Sensbach has pieced together this forgotten life of a black visionary from German, Danish, and Dutch records, including letters in Protten's own hand, to create an astounding tale of one woman's freedom amidst the slave trade. Protten's life, with its evangelical efforts on three continents, reveals the dynamic relations of the Atlantic world and affords great insight into the ways black Christianity developed in the New World. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 410 0$aATLA Special Series 531 $aREBECCA'S REVIVAL 606 $aAfrican American evangelists$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American women$vBiography 615 0$aAfrican American evangelists 615 0$aAfrican American women 676 $a269.2092 700 $aSensbach$b Jon F$01018118 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247915803316 996 $aRebecca's revival$92392265 997 $aUNISA