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It's Passover right now. Enslaved Africans in America identified with the Jews of the Exodus story. The song "Go Down Moses" was originally sung by freed Blacks - Harriet Tubman herself even sung it. Why, after emancipation, did they then become Christian and not Jewish?

by /u/kahntemptuous in /r/AskHistorians

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