Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin • 1953
Devastation Rating
race religion Harlem coming of age
Our Take
John Grimes's conversion experience in a Harlem storefront church is Baldwin's account of everything Black America had been forced to contain: the sexuality, the rage, the yearning, the faith that was simultaneously liberation and tool of oppression. The night on the threshing floor is one of the great set pieces in American literature.
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