Go_Down_Moses

Go Down Moses Political Thought in Literature Some key points to consider in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses: The book's title: Comes from an old Negro spiritual, "Go Down, Moses, 'way down in Egypt land; Tell Pharaoh … let my people go!" (Part of it is sung in the title story, last chapter of the book). Why did Faulkner choose this story' (The spiritual of course is comparing the enslavement of blacks in America to that which the Jews endured in Egypt. Each chapter in the book explores some aspect of the legacy of slavery for the South - and for America as a whole, perhaps'). "Was": Set off from the rest of the book: not numbered as a chapter. Takes place in 1859. "Was" because (1) it depicts events that took place before the birth of any character who appears in the remaining chapters; (2) it's the only chapter depicting events prior go, down, moses, ike, man, cf, old, men, ike's, sam, mccaslin, story, carothers, because, son, god, bear, pride, one, land, wilderness, never, freedom, cass, black, ben, roth, mccaslin's, free, fathers, yet, turl, through, seems, legacy, grandfather, even, after, white, place, people, own, lion, ikkemotubbe, human, himself, father, blacks, between, tomey's, sophonsiba, slaves