"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.
Author: Yolanda Pierce · Original publisher: University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL, 2005)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/hellwithoutfires0000pier (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche B1: hellwithoutfires0000pier; no hosting rights).
