'The Heavenization of Earth': African American Visions and Uses of the Afterlife, 1863-1901.
Belief in the afterlife was of central importance to slave converts, who ascribed double-meanings to heaven and hell, as places to which the dead would go, and as metaphors for freedom and slavery. After the war, the continued prominence of the afterlife in ex-slave religion found vocal critics amon...
| Publicado en: | Slavery & Abolition Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 207 - 232 |
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