{"product_id":"hell-without-fires-9780813068596","title":"Hell Without Fires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn innovative and brilliant analysis of five antebellum slave narratives.\" - \u003cem\u003eChoice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pierce analyzes each of the conversion narratives in fresh, revealing ways, and scholars should be motivated to reread the original accounts--and others like them--afresh.\" - \u003cem\u003eBiography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pierce's analysis of these narratives help[s] to explain slaves' conversion to the religion of their oppressors, what forms of advocacy those converts called to preach could claim, and the ways that early African American converts merged African religions and Protestant Christianity.\" - \u003cem\u003eAfrican American Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Packs a wealth of information. . . . Readers will be amply repaid for time spent reading it.\" - \u003cem\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Helps establish black spiritual, or conversion, narratives as an important genre in its own right. It is constantly informed by much of the best recent scholarship on slavery, religion, and gender relations.\" - \u003cem\u003eRegister of the Kentucky Historical Society\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371771208023,"sku":"9780813068596","price":24.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813068596.jpg?v=1730154491","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hell-without-fires-9780813068596","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}