Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America Economic History expressed through their name: Beta

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a fourteen-year-old slave

- Maya Angelou"

Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America Economic History expressed through their name: BetaNo 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