"Convert or die." Was it also volunary for those converts?
"Yes..."get out OR convert." That is a coerced conversion, unlike someone waking up one day to find Christ. It's not voluntary when put in those terms no matter how you slice it."
There was conceivably material advantage in converting, but they were perfectly free to take their stuff and move. Most of them did. The conversion business was an out intended for people who felt they could genuinely convert.
"Convert or die." Was it also volunary for those converts?"
I've seen those allegations made, but never convincingly. In the Catholic Church, a forced conversion doesn't even count.