Rebecca Protten

Rebecca Freundlich Protten
Rebecca Freundlich Protten
Born
Shelly

1718
Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda
Died1780 (aged 61–62)
Christiansborg, Gold Coast
NationalityDanish subject
OccupationMissionary
Known forMother of Modern Missions in the Atlantic World
Spouses
  • Matthäus Freundlich
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    (m. 1738; died 1742)​
  • ​
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    (m. 1746; died 1769)​
Children
  • Anna Maria Freundlich (1740–1744)
  • Anna Maria Protten

Rebecca Freundlich Protten, also Shelly (1718–1780) was a Caribbean Moravian evangelist and pioneer missionary who proselytized the Gospel to enslaved Virgin Islanders of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.[1][2][3][4] A "mulatress" and a former enslaved Antiguan, Antigua and Barbuda, she pioneered Christian missions in the Atlantic World in the 1700s.[5][6] Scholars have described her as the "Mother of Modern Missions" as her life's work bridged Christianity in the West Indies, in Europe and in West Africa, all geographic regions she lived in.[7][8][9][10][11]

  1. ^ Sensbach, Jon F. (30 June 2009). Rebecca's Revival. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674043459. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  2. ^ Sensbach, Jon F. (2006). Rebecca's Revival. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674022577. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  3. ^ Frey, Sylvia R.; Wood, Betty (9 November 2000). Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807861585. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Rebecca Protten Freundlich". geni_family_tree. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  5. ^ Sopiarz, Josh (31 July 2006). "Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (review)". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 39 (4): 573–574. doi:10.1353/ecs.2006.0031. ISSN 1086-315X. S2CID 162115295.
  6. ^ Carretta, V. (1 June 2006). "JON F. SENSBACH. Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 302. $22.95". The American Historical Review. 111 (3): 794–795. doi:10.1086/ahr.111.3.794. ISSN 0002-8762.
  7. ^ "Meet the Mother of Modern Missions". The Gospel Coalition. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  8. ^ "The Limits of Rebecca's Revival". khronikos: the blog. 9 May 2013. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Rebecca's Revival — Jon F. Sensbach | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  10. ^ Sasser, Daryl (December 2005). "Review of Sensbach, Jon F., Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World". www.h-net.org. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Rebecca Protten | People/Characters | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.