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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.

African American evangelists --- African American women --- Protten, Rebecca, --- Afro-American evangelists --- Evangelists, African American --- Evangelists

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According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." This book examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.

American prose literature --- Women and literature --- African American women --- African American women in the professions --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Autobiography --- African American women in literature. --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Afro-American women in literature --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Afro-American women in the professions --- Professions --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- Intellectual life --- History. --- Employment --- African American authors. --- Women authors. --- Afro-American authors --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)

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Free African Americans --- African American pioneers --- Afro-American pioneers --- Pioneers, African American --- Pioneers --- Free Afro-Americans --- Free blacks --- African Americans --- History --- Caulder, Peter, --- Arkansas --- Free Black people

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Afro-Americans --- Slavery --- Social conditions --- Fiction. --- History --- African American women --- Infanticide --- Women slaves --- Slave women --- Slaves --- Homicide --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- African Americans --- American literature --- Women, Enslaved --- Enslaved persons

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""[A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history."" -- Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Cynthia M. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. She analyses what it meant to be a woman in a world where historically specific social classifications

African American women --- Women --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Charleston (S.C.) --- City of Charleston (S.C.) --- Charles-Town (S.C.) --- Race relations