Jon Sensbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 951412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Sensbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Sensbach |
| SIGNATURE | SENSBACH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmenta…
Impressions of freedom: Camille Pissarro and the post-emancipation Caribbean
This study explores slavery and emancipation through the work of the painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). Sometimes called the “Father of Impressionism,” Pissarro, a Caribbean native of Sephardic Jewish descent, came of age during a cycle of slave rebellions and abolitions during the 1830s and 1840s. His earliest work focused on formerly enslaved people in the first phase of liberation. Pissarro’s West Indian studies anticipated his emergence as…
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Latin America and the Caribbean
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Marcus Rediker, The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Marcus Rediker, The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (Boston: Beacon Press, 2017), 212 pp., $26.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-8070-3592-4
Simplicity, Equality, and Slavery: An Archaeology of Quakerism in the British Virgin Islands, 1740–1780, by John M. Chenoweth
Forum on Katharine Gerbner's Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
Between roughly 1500 and nearly the end of the nineteenth century, slave traders sent more than twelve million enslaved Africans to the Americas. It is no secret that Christianity was deeply complicit with the rise of the plantation system that created the lethally voracious demand for forced labor. Two basic questions have preoccupied historians studying the links between religion and slavery: why did Christianity become an ideological bulwark f…
Sally McKee. The Exile’s Song: Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World
What is the nature of exile? How do the exiled balance the pain of loss with the unfamiliarity of the new? Such questions lie at the heart of The Exile’s Song, Sally McKee’s marvelous exploration into the life of the composer Edmond Dédé, a francophone free man of color from New Orleans who migrated to France in 1855 and wrote orchestral music in Bordeaux for thirty-six years. In self-exile from the racism of his native country, Dédé became “the …
Freedom from Heaven
From the beginning of European colonialism in the New World, Africans and people of African descent used religious language and ideology to protest the interlocking of religion, the state, and slavery. Throughout the Americas, slavery was built on a legal superstructure undergirded by imperial, national, and local power. Government produced and enforced the slave codes that defined human beings as property and legalized their torture, maiming, an…
Prophets and Helpers: African American Women and the Rise of Black Christianity in the Age of the Slave Trade
Gender, Religion, and American Encounters
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Slavery, Race, and the Global Fellowship: Religious Radicals Confront the Modern Age
Religion and the Early South in an Age of Atlantic Empire
EARLY 1704: QUEEN ANNE'S WAR RAGES ON THE FRONTIERS OF EASTERN North America. Indian and European allies advance southward through forest on unsuspecting enemy villages. A surprise raid--defenders are quickly overpowered. Homes and churches are torched, captives are burned at stake while reciting religious verse, hundreds more file northward into slavery, and those who cannot keep up are butchered on trail. A fellowship of godly is decimated. Thi…
Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
In the second of his twelve labors, Hercules was assigned the task of killing the poisonous hydra, the nine-headed monster who sprouted two new snake heads each time the mythical hero cut one off. As Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker show, the classical hero'struggle appealed strongly to the monarchs, strategists, and mercantile entrepreneurs who plotted the expansion of European empires in the early modern period. They saw themselves as Hercule…
The Cambridge History of Christianity
This is the first scholarly treatment of nineteenth-century Christianity to discuss the subject in a global context. Part I analyses the responses of Catholic and Protestant Christianity to the intellectual and social challenges presented by European modernity. It gives attention to the explosion of new voluntary forms of Christianity and the expanding role of women in religious life. Part II surveys the diverse and complex relationships between …
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727- 1801
Religion and Imperial Conflict
As war between Britain and France raged around the world in the 1750s, religious writers in colonial British America described the conflict as nothing short of the apocalypse foretold in the Book of Revelation. The battle between Protestant Britain and Catholic France, as they saw it, represented the death struggle between Christ and the Antichrist, and Britain's triumph would deal a mortal blow to the “beast” of Rome. With British victory in the…
A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
Journal Article A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763–1840. By Jon F. Sensbach. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xxvi, 342 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2394-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4698-8.) Get access Aaron S. Fogleman Aaron S. Fogleman University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
George Washington and Slavery: A Documentary Portrayal
No history of racism in America can be considered complete without taking into account the role that George Washington - the principal founding father - played in helping to mold the racist cast of the new nation. Because General Washington - the universally acknowledged hero of the Revolutionary War - in the postwar period uniquely combined the moral authority, personal prestige, and political power to influence significantly the course and the …
A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
Artisans in the North Carolina Backcountry
Herrnhuter Indianermission in der Amerikanschen Revolution: Die Tagebucher von David Zeisberger 1772 bis 1781
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Forum on Katharine Gerbner's Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
Between roughly 1500 and nearly the end of the nineteenth century, slave traders sent more than twelve million enslaved Africans to the Americas. It is no secret that Christianity was deeply complicit with the rise of the plantation system that created the lethally voracious demand for forced labor. Two basic questions have preoccupied historians studying the links between religion and slavery: why did Christianity become an ideological bulwark f…
Charting a Course in Early African-American History
W rE seldom study the condition of the Negro to-day honestly and carefully, observed W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk, his classic work of I 903. It is so much easier to assume that we know it all. Or perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts. DuBois's dignified eloquence scarcely masked his anger-palpable on nearly every page of the book-in an age of mounting racial discrimi…
From Reich to Realm: German Immigrants in a New Land
Historians of early America have long been fascinated with the transatlantic migrations that brought hundreds of thousands of settlers onto colonial soil in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The peopling of British North America, to use Bernard Bailyn's term, has largely been viewed as the voluntary transfer of migrants from the British Isles to New England, the Chesapeake, and Pennsylvania. To some scholars, the connection between Englis…
Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida
This record of pre-Columbian Florida relates the 12,000-year story of the native peoples who inhabited the state. Using information gathered by archaeological investigations, many carried out since 1980, Jerald Milanich describes the indigenous cultures and explains why they developed as they did. Milanich introduces the material heritage of the first This record of pre-Columbian Florida relates the 12,000-year story of the native peoples who inh…
Artisans in the North Carolina Backcountry
Herrnhuter Indianermission in der Amerikanschen Revolution: Die Tagebucher von David Zeisberger 1772 bis 1781
George Washington and Slavery: A Documentary Portrayal
No history of racism in America can be considered complete without taking into account the role that George Washington - the principal founding father - played in helping to mold the racist cast of the new nation. Because General Washington - the universally acknowledged hero of the Revolutionary War - in the postwar period uniquely combined the moral authority, personal prestige, and political power to influence significantly the course and the …
A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
Religion and Imperial Conflict
As war between Britain and France raged around the world in the 1750s, religious writers in colonial British America described the conflict as nothing short of the apocalypse foretold in the Book of Revelation. The battle between Protestant Britain and Catholic France, as they saw it, represented the death struggle between Christ and the Antichrist, and Britain's triumph would deal a mortal blow to the “beast” of Rome. With British victory in the…
A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
Journal Article A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763–1840. By Jon F. Sensbach. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xxvi, 342 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2394-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4698-8.) Get access Aaron S. Fogleman Aaron S. Fogleman University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
The Cambridge History of Christianity
This is the first scholarly treatment of nineteenth-century Christianity to discuss the subject in a global context. Part I analyses the responses of Catholic and Protestant Christianity to the intellectual and social challenges presented by European modernity. It gives attention to the explosion of new voluntary forms of Christianity and the expanding role of women in religious life. Part II surveys the diverse and complex relationships between …
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727- 1801
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
In the second of his twelve labors, Hercules was assigned the task of killing the poisonous hydra, the nine-headed monster who sprouted two new snake heads each time the mythical hero cut one off. As Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker show, the classical hero'struggle appealed strongly to the monarchs, strategists, and mercantile entrepreneurs who plotted the expansion of European empires in the early modern period. They saw themselves as Hercule…
Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
Slavery, Race, and the Global Fellowship: Religious Radicals Confront the Modern Age
Religion and the Early South in an Age of Atlantic Empire
EARLY 1704: QUEEN ANNE'S WAR RAGES ON THE FRONTIERS OF EASTERN North America. Indian and European allies advance southward through forest on unsuspecting enemy villages. A surprise raid--defenders are quickly overpowered. Homes and churches are torched, captives are burned at stake while reciting religious verse, hundreds more file northward into slavery, and those who cannot keep up are butchered on trail. A fellowship of godly is decimated. Thi…
Gender, Religion, and American Encounters
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Prophets and Helpers: African American Women and the Rise of Black Christianity in the Age of the Slave Trade
Freedom from Heaven
From the beginning of European colonialism in the New World, Africans and people of African descent used religious language and ideology to protest the interlocking of religion, the state, and slavery. Throughout the Americas, slavery was built on a legal superstructure undergirded by imperial, national, and local power. Government produced and enforced the slave codes that defined human beings as property and legalized their torture, maiming, an…
Sally McKee. The Exile’s Song: Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World
What is the nature of exile? How do the exiled balance the pain of loss with the unfamiliarity of the new? Such questions lie at the heart of The Exile’s Song, Sally McKee’s marvelous exploration into the life of the composer Edmond Dédé, a francophone free man of color from New Orleans who migrated to France in 1855 and wrote orchestral music in Bordeaux for thirty-six years. In self-exile from the racism of his native country, Dédé became “the …
Marcus Rediker, The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Marcus Rediker, The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (Boston: Beacon Press, 2017), 212 pp., $26.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-8070-3592-4
Simplicity, Equality, and Slavery: An Archaeology of Quakerism in the British Virgin Islands, 1740–1780, by John M. Chenoweth
Forum on Katharine Gerbner's Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
Between roughly 1500 and nearly the end of the nineteenth century, slave traders sent more than twelve million enslaved Africans to the Americas. It is no secret that Christianity was deeply complicit with the rise of the plantation system that created the lethally voracious demand for forced labor. Two basic questions have preoccupied historians studying the links between religion and slavery: why did Christianity become an ideological bulwark f…
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