REBECCA’S REVIVAL:
Creating Black Christianity in the
Atlantic World
By Jon F. Sensback
Harvard University Press. 320 pages. £16.45
ISBN 978 0 674 022 577
This extraordinary story deserves to be better known. It is the life of Rebecca, a ‘mulatto’ freed slave who, as a teenage evangelist, drew slaves to Christ in the plantation island of St Thomas.
This was in the 1730s, some 55 years before Carey gets going as ‘the father of modern missions’, and well before Wilberforce’s abolition of slavery movement! Rebecca travels the island barefoot, sharing Jesus and teaching and encouraging slaves to turn to Christ and follow Him.
