Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America Economic History a fourteen-year-old slave

a fourteen-year-old slave

Let His praises rresound in the heavens

it's an exercise in recalling memories

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

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

Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America Economic History a fourteen-year-old slaveNo 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