How might we reread the centrality of black belonging, black kinship, and black futurity to black political imagination and black knowledge production if we follow the concept of black redemption to its theological genesis? My book asks how the relay between the redemptive and the reproductive recasts our understanding of post-Reconstruction black politics. The book tries to push the form of black theology to a breaking point by analyzing the material and spiritual reasons for sentimental attachments to a notion of black redemption. Sentimental, here, is not pejorative, but descriptive of a style of generating sense that often employs redemptive tropes and grammars to renew and reconfigure public investments in national, religious, and racial senses of belonging. However, divergences from the straightforwardly redemptive form of sentimental literature appear in curious ways in black women’s post-Reconstruction literature. *Sentimental Theologies* extends and creatively reconceives Spillers and Williams’ insights to develop a way of reading the domestic literature of Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins, and Angelina Weld Grimké. More, the book shows how these women work with Christian theological sensibilities to reproduce a sense of black significance. It offers novel accounts of how each authors’ investment in knowledge and perception, kinship and blood, and education and justice can be read. Employing the terms of traditional theological loci—revelation, incarnation and pneumatology, and theodicy—my readings of these texts show how the political, theological, and psychic structures that animate antiblackness are revealed in these women’s writing as dependent on intimate arrangements of power.