some social advancement. To Blacks, the conversion experience phenomenon, unique to evangelicalism, continued to symbolize that all are one in Christ. And while the impulse of conversion for Blacks was not “revolutionary egalitarianism” during the revivals, it served the purpose of offering Blacks a means of establishing their claim upon the Christian care and respect of their comrades. A third development in this period is that Blacks understood the Christian message they had received from their