Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. Over centuries of interpretation, Ham came to be identified as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to be seen as biblical justification for American slavery and segregation. Examining the history of the American interpretation of Noah's curse, this book begins with an overview of the prior history of the reception of this scripture and then turns to the distinctive and creative ways in which the curse was appropriated by American pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters. |
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... racism are the subject of intense controversy.17 One medieval rendering of Christ's genealogy has been interpreted as racializing some of Ham's descendants through Cush.18 Yet at least one scholar who has reviewed the relevant evidence ...
... racism are the subject of intense controversy.17 One medieval rendering of Christ's genealogy has been interpreted as racializing some of Ham's descendants through Cush.18 Yet at least one scholar who has reviewed the relevant evidence ...
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... racist readings of Genesis 9–11 before and after the Civil War. Precisely because Noah's curse was so clearly applicable to the question of slavery, its postwar relevance was not selfevident. But American Bible readers soon discovered ...
... racist readings of Genesis 9–11 before and after the Civil War. Precisely because Noah's curse was so clearly applicable to the question of slavery, its postwar relevance was not selfevident. But American Bible readers soon discovered ...
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... racism and American imperialism.46 Genovese argues, in other words, that the racist bridge often assumed to link the Old South with the New obscures the significant disjunction between the intellectual and moral justifications provided ...
... racism and American imperialism.46 Genovese argues, in other words, that the racist bridge often assumed to link the Old South with the New obscures the significant disjunction between the intellectual and moral justifications provided ...
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... racism and imperialism to a theology ostensibly rooted in scripture, Palmer represents an important strand of continuity between prewar and postwar Southern ideology. Fourth, Palmer reveals that the religious continuity in Southern racism ...
... racism and imperialism to a theology ostensibly rooted in scripture, Palmer represents an important strand of continuity between prewar and postwar Southern ideology. Fourth, Palmer reveals that the religious continuity in Southern racism ...
Contents
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HONOR AND ORDER | 63 |
NOAHS CAMERA | 123 |
REDEEMING THE CURSE | 175 |
Notes | 223 |
Bibliography | 299 |
Index | 314 |
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