| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3 | The History Cooperative

Jon F. Sensbach. Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 302. $22.95.
In this noteworthy book, Jon F. Sensbach combines impressive archival skills with sophisticated analyses of textual and visual evidence to reconstruct the story of a hitherto rather obscure individual of African descent, much of whose life was spent in one of the smallest and least economically and politically significant European colonies in the West Indies. In so doing, he convincingly demonstrates that the biography of this little-known woman, whose own life was apparently so different from the lives of the overwhelming majority of her contemporaries of African descent, was nonetheless paradoxically emblematic of theirs and their descendants.	1
The woman who died on the Gold Coast of Africa in 1780 as Rebecca Protten had been born of African European heritage around 1718 in the British colony of Antigua. Kidnapped at about the age of seven, she was brought to the Danish colony of St. Thomas and sold as Shelly to the prominent planter Lucas van Beverhout. The little girl quickly displayed a remarkable degree of agency and independence. Desiring to become a full member of the Christian community, sometime during her early adolescence she sought out a Roman Catholic priest, who baptised her as Rebecca. Around the same time, for reasons unknown, her late first master's son and heir, Adrian, freed her.	. . .

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