Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative Pierce Yolanda
Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative Pierce Yolanda Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for…
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Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative Pierce Yolanda
Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Yolanda Pierce insists that for African Americans, accounts of spiritual conversion revealed "personal transformations with far-reaching community effects. 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.
A personal experience of an individual's relationship with God is transformed into the possibility of liberating an entire community." The process of conversion could result in miraculous literacy, "callings" to preach, a renewed resistance to the slave condition, defiance of racist and sexist conventions, and communal uplift.These stories by five of the earliest antebellum spiritual writers--George White, John Jea, David Smith,