Rebecca's Revival
Rebecca's Revival
副标题: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780674022577
出版社: Harvard University Press
出版年: 2006-10-31
页数: 320
定价: USD 24.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
"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 embarked on an itinerant mission, preaching to hundreds of the enslaved Africans of St. Thomas, a Danish sugar colony in the West Indies. Labouring in obscurity and weathering persecution from hostile planters, Protten and other black preachers created the earliest African Protestant congregation in the Americas.