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Thread #1259 Message #1496287
Posted By: Azizi
30-May-05 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: Discussion: Wade in the Water
Subject: RE: Wade in the Water
Q,
re: your comment:
'Beulah Land' comes from "Pilgrim's Progress," by Bunyan, 1628-1688. Bunyan used the name for an idyllic land near the end of life's journey. It later appeared in sermons and hymns.'
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I didn't mean to imply that enslaved African Americans were the first to use that Beulah to refer to an idyllic land. But I have read that they did use this name as a coded referent for Canada and freedom land.