A Response to Uncle Tom's Cabin -

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4. Really? Passover, the central Jewish holiday, celebrates liberation from slavery.

The story re-appears in the early Jewish law as an explanation:

Also you must not oppress a foreigner; for surely you know the heart of the foreigner, having been foreigners in Egypt

Psalm 137 recounts the sorrow and rage of captives:

We sat down and, yes, wept beside the waters of Babylon, when we remembered Zion. In the midst of the willows, we hung up our harps. For they, who had carried us away there as prisoners, demanded songs from us; and those who tormented us insisted, Sing for us your songs from Zion