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The Black Problem and the Philadelphia Experiment The Black Problem and the Philadelphia Experiment
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Absalom Jones: Pillar of Cloud as Pillar of the Community Absalom Jones: Pillar of Cloud as Pillar of the Community
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Exodus as Pillar of Cloud: Building Pillars of the Community Exodus as Pillar of Cloud: Building Pillars of the Community
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Massachusetts Bay Colony: Puritan Promised Land Massachusetts Bay Colony: Puritan Promised Land
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David Walker: A Pillar of Fire “Unfit” for This World David Walker: A Pillar of Fire “Unfit” for This World
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Walker’s Appeal: Exodus as Radical Politics and Public Contest Walker’s Appeal: Exodus as Radical Politics and Public Contest
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1 Exodus: Israelite Deliverance and Antebellum Hope
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Published:August 2015
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This chapter recounts the antebellum period, describing the political and social contexts of two African American interpreters: Absalom Jones and David Walker. In 1808, Absalom Jones delivered his celebrated “Thanksgiving Sermon” based on Exodus 3 to a well-established congregation at Philadelphia's African Episcopal Church. He deployed a pillar of cloud politics that balanced his ecclesial community's commitments to justice for enslaved African Americans with concerns for their own survival and social uplift. Two decades later in Boston, David Walker, a Methodist layperson, published the first edition of his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Using references to the exodus story throughout, Walker's missive is a display of his pillar of fire politics of the first order. It is oriented toward emancipation through nothing less than open rebellion. From radically different vantage points, both figures take up the exodus story to transform black social reality.
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