Go Tell it on the Mountain raises many important issues concerning the purpose and function of religion and faith in God as it pertains to an individual's life and the community one lives in. The setting of James Baldwin's novel is 1940's Harlem, a place where the characters face much oppression, racial persecution, and social emasculation, especially Florence, who has suffered greatly and feels as though the hardships in her life are responsible for the deterioration of love, relationships, strength, and hope. ... But, going down before the scarlet cloth at the foot of the ...

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