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Many African American spirituals compared the slavery in America to the slavery of the Israelites in the story of Moses. Moses and God repeatedly ask Pharaoh to let the slaves go. Writers of spirituals like this one are also demanding that slaves be freed.
He brought down the Torah from God.
Go Down Moses was created in 1862.
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (and the walls came tumbling down)
The meaning of the song "Go Down Moses" means that Moses should go down and issues the commands that he has been given. The people who obeyed these instructions were saved.
This song is a disguised song about Herriot Tubman.
Moses was on the mountain for forty days and nights.
Moses climbed mount Sinai in Egypt.
It was first recorded in a book on African American slave spirituals in 1867. Also the song might be a earlier book in 1837.
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, his face emanated rays that reflected God's glory.
The Torah was dictated by Gcd and written down by Moses. Once Moses died the Torah was "sealed".
Moses essentially is the 'law-giver', the man who brought down the Ten Commandments and the Torah.