Reviews
"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." -- John B. Boles
--Biography
"Pierce's book 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 packs a wealth of information in this small book. It is a model more writers should emulate. Readers will be amply repaid for time spent reading it."
--Journal of Southern History
" Pierce's analysis of these narratives help 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
"A useful and engaging addition to the growing literature on antebellum religious narratives."
--African American Review