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Lord, Send Us
A Kaleidoscope of evangelists
Sarah Johnson and Eileen Moffett | posted 4/01/2006 12:00AM
Betsey Stockton (1798-1865)
Single-minded schoolteacher
During the winter of 1815, a revival on the Princeton college campus spilled over into the life of a young, intelligent female servant in the household of Ashbel Green, the college president. Betsey Stockton was baptized a year later. As her Christian faith matured, she longed to offer herself as a missionary. But what hope had she, an unmarried black woman, to reach such a goal?
Betsey Stockton's mother had been a slave of Robert Stockton, one of Princeton's distinguished citizens. As a small child, Betsey was sent to the home of Robert Stockton's daughter, the wife of Ashbel Green. "By me and my wife," he later wrote, "she was never intended to be held as a slave." She was treated in their household kindly as a servant girl for whom they had a growing affection, included in family prayers, and "home-schooled" by Dr. Green.
Shortly after Betsey's conversion, Charles Stewart, a Princeton seminary student and friend of the Green family, ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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