Exodus

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Exodus

• Whites identified with New Israel
• Africans identified with Old Israel

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Exodus StoryRich metaphors

• White Christians
• America Promised Land
• New Israel
• Africans slaves by design
• Manifest Destiny

• Africans
• America Egypt Land of Bondage
• Old Israel
• Whites are Pharaohs

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Exodus Story for Whites

• Crossing Atlantic - Red Sea
• America - Promised Land
• Mount Sinai - Covenant with God
• Worship and obedience is due God
• Possession of land -- need to follow Gods
  commandments
• Gods Will and Americas Destiny

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Exodus for Africans

• Middle Passage - to Bondage
• America - Egypt
• Slavery - Bondage
• Blacks - Israelites
• Deliverance will be from God - God delivered the
  Israelites
• Harriet Tubman - Moses
• Freedom (sometimes Canada) - Canaan