Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Go Down Moses and other slave songs




Why was it important for the slaves to sing about Moses and Egypt? 
What was the purpose/motivation for it?

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  2. Moses meant for Slaves allot because they wanted Moses like he saved Egypt to help them and them to be free which was there motivation.
    Liberty is all they wanted.

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  3. they inspire by the song and said like secret messages

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  4. it was important for them because that way they new everything was possible and because they were looking for escape,


    The purpose was that they wanted to mosses save them like he did with Egypt.

    The motivation was that they wanted to be free.

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  5. I think that they song about Moses because Moses liberated the jewish slaves from the egyptians, and thinking about the liberation of slaves gave them hope. Another reason was because of Harriet Tubman, who was kind of like a savior to them.

    Also, I believe my comment would count as first because nobody else mentioned that they were first, so...
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  6. It was important because moses was the one who make the egyptians free and the slaves wanted to be free too.

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  7. The reason why slaves sang to Moses was for him to help them and give them things they needed. Their inspiration or motivation to do this is to be free, get liberty and live a better life.

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  8. I think it is important because the moses help the slaves go free from Egypt and that make them to sing and also they wanted to be free.

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  9. it was important because they try to make them confident for escaping

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  10. They sang about Moses and the Egyptians because Moses was represented by Mrs. Tubman and the Egyptians were the slaves themselves now that just as the Egyptians and Moses got to be free, they also wanted to get to be free someday

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  11. I think it was important for slaves to sing about Moses and Egypt because they wanted freedom and they look at Harriet Tubman as Moses because she has helped many slaves go free just like Moses help the Faro's slaves free in Egypt.

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  12. For the African people Moses is very important because he delivered the slaves in Egypt so that kind of gave them hope and inspiration.

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  13. So that the slaves can have inspiration and religion to escape from slavery and also so the white people fell bad for what they didi

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  14. Harriet Tubman was important for them because she helped them be free just like Moses helped slaves in Egypt.

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    1. It was important for them because they are asking the moses for help so they can be free

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  15. It was important for the slaves to sing about Moses because the slaves were very mistreated and that will motivate them and give them hope

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  16. it was important that they sang about moses because the slaves were dehumanized and when they sang the song it motivated them to have hope

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  17. it was important because the mosses helped egypt, and they wanted someone to help them as mosses helped egypt... to let them free

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  18. I think it was important because they wanted the slaves to be free.It also was to make everybody be free and in Egypt there were the most slaves and they did it because it was important.

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  19. I think that they sing the songs about that to make slaves know where to go to be free

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  20. it is important that the slaves sang about moses so they would have hope in her

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  21. I thinks it was because Moses thought about people being free and they are singing about Egypt because Moses helped the slaves in Egypt be free.

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  22. Maybe Egypt was a key place to follow the secret road (railroad). They sang about Moses so that they would not lose hope of being free. Egypt was also full of slaves and they could relate.

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  23. they sing about moses and egypt because moses liberated slaves from eypt

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  24. It was important for them because it was there motivation to be free as same as the moses helped in Egypt.

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  25. It was important because it will help them to not give up, and give them more hope.
    -Isabella and Maria Laura

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  26. The slaves sang song to express there feelings of freedom and liberty to have hope

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  27. It was important because they wanted someone like Moses to save them.

    Their purpose/motivation was that they wanted freedom.

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  28. The slaves sang about moses and Egypt because Moses free the slaves from the Faroh he had a huge amout of slaves in Egypt thats why they sang about it

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  29. It was important someone to save them

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  30. Because moses saved the jewish like how Harriet Tubman saved some of them.

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