Rebecca's revival: creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic world

✍ Scribed by Jon F. Sensbach

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2005
Leaves: 312
Series: ATLA Special Series
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Prologue (page 1)
1. A Baptism of Blood (page 8)
2. Rebirth and Remembrance (page 28)
3. A Priestly Woman (page 45)
4. The Path (page 69)
5. Witness (page 101)
6. The Devil's Bargain (page 133)
7. A Pilgrim in Europe (page 162)
8. Christiansborg (page 202)
Epilogue: Rebecca's Shadow (page 234)
Abbreviations (page 249)
Notes (page 251)
Sources (page 290)
Acknowledgments (page 294)
Index (page 297)

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