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PHARAOH
In the spiritual, Pharaoh stands for every earthly power that holds people in chains, the song never names him by any other title, letting the ancient story carry all the weight.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CANAAN
Canaan, the Promised Land across the Jordan, appears throughout the old spirituals as both a biblical destination and a coded hope for a life of freedom on the other side of suffering.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
EXODUS
The Book of Exodus, second book of the Hebrew Bible, tells of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt, a story that has inspired liberation movements across centuries and continents.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
JORDAN
The Jordan River marked the boundary of the Promised Land in scripture, and in the spirituals it carried a deeper resonance, the crossing that stood between bondage and a new life.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Go Down, Moses, a free, large-print word search honoring the great freedom spiritual and its timeless cry: let my people go.

About Go Down, Moses

Few songs carry the weight of "Go Down, Moses", a spiritual whose thundering refrain, "Let my people go," turned the story of ancient bondage in Egypt into a living prayer for freedom. Sung by enslaved people in America, it wove the sufferings of Israel under Pharaoh together with their own longing for deliverance, so that every word of the old song rang with double meaning. The image of Moses standing before the throne of Egypt, speaking for the downtrodden, became one of the most enduring in all of American song.

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