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ZORA NEALE HURSTON
(1891–1960) was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist whose fictional and factual accounts of black heritage remain unparalleled. Her many books include
Dust Tracks on a Road, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Seraph on the Suwanee, Mules and Men, Tell My Horse
, and
Every Tongue Got to Confess.

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MOSES, MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN
. Copyright © 1939 by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright renewed 1967 by John C. Hurston and Joel Hurston. Afterword, Selected Bibliography, and Chronology copyright © 1990 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the previous edition as follows:

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Moses, man of the mountain / by Zora Neale Hurston.—1st Harper Perennial ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-06-091994-9 (pbk.)

1. Moses (Biblical leader)—Fiction. 2. Bible. O.T.—History of biblical events—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3515.U789M6    1991    90-55502

813'.52—dc20

EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-201056-8

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A multitude of mixed-blood people marched out of Egypt with the Hebrews.

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