- Joined
- Dec 3, 2011
- Location
- Laurinburg NC
For at least one night each spring during the Civil War, in places like Louisiana and South Carolina and Georgia and Virginia, Confederate Jews commemorated how God freed the children of Israel from slavery. They retold the story of when God is said to have sent down 10 plagues to help free the Hebrews from their bondage, the last of which was the slaying of all Egyptians’ firstborn children, and how the Jews marked their door posts with the blood of a slaughtered lamb so the Angel of Death would know to "pass over" them. Thus, they celebrated their liberation more than 3,000 years ago from slavery in ancient Egypt, and their exodus.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/passover-in-the-confederacy/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=fb-share&_r=0
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/passover-in-the-confederacy/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=fb-share&_r=0