Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America Economic History It is the story of

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expressed through their name: Beta Israel (“House of Israel”)

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that we are tied to the cosmic umbilical of poetry and song

Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America Economic History It is the story ofNo other story in the Bible has fired the imaginations of African Americans quite like that of Exodus. Its tale of suffering and the journey to redemption offered hope and a sense of possibility to people facing seemingly insurmountable evil. Exodus! shows how this biblical story inspired a pragmatic tradition of racial advocacy among African Americans in the early nineteenth centurya tradition based not on race but on a moral politics of