Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative

by Yolanda Pierce

Book Overview

Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives, the book shows how black writers transformed the earthly hell of slavery into a "New Jerusalem," a place they could call home. Yolanda Pierce insists that for African Americans, accounts of spiritual conversion revealed "personal transformations with far-reaching community effects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813068592
• ISBN13: 9780813068596
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"