rousements

There the sable exhorter might indulge his peculiar talent for "'rousements" and the prayer leader might beseech the Almighty in tones to reach His ears though afar off.

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

An 'den a few rousements, you know, throwed in at de end.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

He laughed over the story of the eloquent colored brother who, when asked how he came to preach so well, said: “Well, Boss, I takes de text fust; I splains it; den I spounds it, and den I puts in de rousements.”

Recollections of a Long Life Cuyler, Theodore L 1902