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Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2000. Pp. x, 216. Cloth $42.00, paper $16.00.

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. offers a reading of African-American Christianity during the antebellum period that seeks to shift the conversation toward a secular understanding of black religion's public role. Glaude examines the career of Exodus motifs in the black political imagination during the first half of the nineteenth century and determines that "out of black religious life emerged a concept of black national identity" that provided "a metaphorical framework for understanding the middle passage, enslavement, and quests for emancipation" (pp. 6, 3). His study is divided into two sections, with the first five chapters covering "Exodus History" and the concluding three chapters outlining "Exodus Politics." In the first chapter, Glaude maps the contours of his argument for a pragmatic view of race and nation in the nineteenth- century black political discourse. The second chapter looks at the public dimensions of African-American churches, emphasizing the way African Americans utilized the Exodus story to imagine themselves as God's chosen people, the children of Israel. He exegetes David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829) to show the connection between black religion and black political action and the necessity for black politics to provide a moral vision for both the black community and whites. . . .

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