Yolanda Pierce, a scholar of African American literature and religion and womanist theology, is the author of In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit.

An innovative and brilliant analysis of five antebellum slave narratives." - Choice"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." - Biography"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." - African American Review"Packs a wealth of information. . . . Readers will be amply repaid for time spent reading it." - Journal of Southern History"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." - Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

Yolanda Pierce, a scholar of African American literature and religion and womanist theology, is the author of In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit.

An innovative and brilliant analysis of five antebellum slave narratives." - Choice"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." - Biography"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." - African American Review"Packs a wealth of information. . . . Readers will be amply repaid for time spent reading it." - Journal of Southern History"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." - Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

Yolanda Pierce, a scholar of African American literature and religion and womanist theology, is the author of In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit.

An innovative and brilliant analysis of five antebellum slave narratives." - Choice"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." - Biography"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." - African American Review"Packs a wealth of information. . . . Readers will be amply repaid for time spent reading it." - Journal of Southern History"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." - Register of the Kentucky Historical Society