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Article: Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World, by Jon F. Sensbach. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. 302 pp. $22.95 US (cloth).
In this book, Jon F. Sensbach uses the remarkable life of an obscure Afro-Atlantic mulatto woman named Rebecca Protten to describe the origins of black Protestantism in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. According to Sensbach, Rebecca deserves a biography because she "stood where the three main currents of the eighteenth-century black Atlantic world flowed together: the dramatic expansion of the slave trade; the Afro-Atlantic freedom struggle; and the rise of black Christianity" (p. ...