Rebeccas Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
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While this quote shows the religious fervor of the community that Rebecca was adopted into, it does not give any sense that once within the mission in Germany, Rebecca had a major role creating more black missionaries or spreading the gospel herself. In fact it seems that her presence within the mission seemed to serve as an example black acceptance into the culture of European whites rather than the furthering of European religion into black culture.
By giving credit to Rebecca as sparking the expansion of black Christianity in the Americas Sensbach diminishes the effect of other important black religious and cultural examples of the period. One of the most famous of these rose to prominence after the death of Rebecca, but nonetheless evidence shows that he had a more direct role in spreading abolitionism and religious fervor than Rebecca did.
Rebecca Protten
The example is the influential writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano. Equiano was like Rebecca, a former slave that became free and highly educated.
After exploring other religions and religious traditions, he became devoted to Christianity… He devoted his mature years to the abolitionist cause and in planned to return to Africa with the black settlers of the Sierra Leone Company, although he did not get further than the port of Plymouth…He did not abandon hope of returning to Africa, attempting unsuccessfully to volunteer as a missionary and then as an explorer for the African Association.
It can be clearly seen here that even in his failures, Equiano played a more active role in black education and conversion than did Rebecca due to his sheer fervor in connecting with other Africans. Due to her lack of effectiveness after she left the Americas it must be concluded that bringing religion to the slave population of St.
Thomas is the only clear conclusion that can be made from the evidence put forward by Sensbach. These works of Moravian history were written by Christian Oldendorp and made up the core of the primary sources that Sensbach had about the life of Rebecca. These documents could certainly be viewed as having a bias as their function was to be used for missionary purposes. Rebecca was pivotal in her works on St.
Thomas, but as Frey and Wood point out she was another element in a long succession of events and was not the model of all subsequent evangelization in the New World.
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Jun 22, Michael Schearer rated it liked it. Rebecca Protten died in Thomas in spite of the fact that she was a free biracial woman from Africa. Oxford Academic. But because there are so few details about Rebecca's life, Sensbach widens the aperture to review the impact of the clash of African, European, and native cultures in the Caribbean during the 18th century. Julie rated it it was amazing Mar 19, Error rating book.
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Be the first to write a review About this product. About this product Product Information 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 , 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.
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. Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World Rebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman—a slave turned evangelist—who helped.
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. Additional Product Features Dewey Edition.
Prologue 1. A Baptism of Blood 2. Rebirth and Remembrance 3. A Priestly Woman 4. The Path 5. Witness 6. The Devil's Bargain 7. A Pilgrim in Europe 8. How fitting that Rebecca's life, lived with grace, commitment, and beauty, should be rendered in precisely the same way by Jon Sensbach. Here is a powerful example of biography 'from the bottom up,' a deep and moving account of an Atlantic pilgrim's progress.
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The book should be a must-read for anyone interested in women's history and also for those who study the African diaspora. Sensbach has constructed a unique biography of an enslaved convert to Christianity from startlingly detailed previously unknown sources. Sensbach's unforgettable portrait of Rebecca's circuits through Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe may be the most powerful account of African resilience in the face of New World slavery since Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom.
Eminently readable, and aimed at a wider audience beyond the boundaries of academe, "Rebecca's Revival" recounts the story of an extraordinary mixed-race former slave, neither illiterate nor invisible. This book is a rare gem, reminiscent of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's "A Midwife's Tale"; Sensbach's detective work in piecing together spare Dutch and German sources to recreate Rebecca's life is astonishing.
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