Exodus and Civil Rights

Exodus and Civil Rights. Baden, J. S. In The Book of Exodus: A Biography, pages 157–185. Princeton University Press, 2019.

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As noted in chapter 5, the American Revolution, for all its glory, entailed a deep moral ambivalence. How could a nation that was formed in response to a feeling of oppression and enslavement, imbued with the rhetoric of the biblical Exodus, continue to engage in the practice of slavery itself? No one was more attuned to this problem than the American Moses himself, George Washington, who struggled throughout his life with, on one hand, the recognition that the institution of slavery was morally repugnant, and, on the other, the belief that his personal prosperity was wholly dependent on the continued

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