Rebecca's Revival : Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World

"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.