LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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They showed that a hero would deliver them from slavery.
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They gave hope that God would deliver them from slavery.
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They helped them do their work faster.
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They were based on African songs.
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Detailed explanation-1: -As Africanized Christianity took hold of the slave population, spirituals served as a way to express the community’s new faith, as well as its sorrows and hopes.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Go Down, Moses, ” a spiritual with its origins in the slave community of the southern United States, adopts the Biblical story of Moses from the book of Exodus to express the unquenchable desire for freedom felt by the African Americans held in captivity.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Go Down Moses” was a forbidden song for the slaves, as their masters knew it was a song about escaping slavery. The slaves connected with the Biblical story of Moses leading his people to freedom. The song enlivened and inspired enslaved people and made it harder for their masters to control them.