Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American SlaveryOxford University Press, 28/03/2002 - 322 من الصفحات "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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... proslavery intellectuals as a “worlddefining myth” whose appeal was based in part on Noah's traditional association with the invention of agriculture and his role as the patriarch of the first postdiluvian family.4 The second work is ...
... proslavery intellectuals as a “worlddefining myth” whose appeal was based in part on Noah's traditional association with the invention of agriculture and his role as the patriarch of the first postdiluvian family.4 The second work is ...
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... intellectual and social forces that contributed to the racialization of Noah's prophecy came to bear on Genesis 10 ... proslavery authors, this grandson of Ham came to embody the curse uttered in Noah's original act of postdiluvian ...
... intellectual and social forces that contributed to the racialization of Noah's prophecy came to bear on Genesis 10 ... proslavery authors, this grandson of Ham came to embody the curse uttered in Noah's original act of postdiluvian ...
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... antislavery activists. In fact, the curse's role in the proslavery argument has been questioned recently on several grounds, including the claim that it was “largely passe ́ among intellectual elites,”37 the supposed difficulty literal ...
... antislavery activists. In fact, the curse's role in the proslavery argument has been questioned recently on several grounds, including the claim that it was “largely passe ́ among intellectual elites,”37 the supposed difficulty literal ...
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... intellectual milieu, Ham's affinity with the Negro could be defended within the ... proslavery argument. The curse became indispensable precisely because ... intellectuals failed to emphasize the racial dimensions of Genesis 9:20–27 ...
... intellectual milieu, Ham's affinity with the Negro could be defended within the ... proslavery argument. The curse became indispensable precisely because ... intellectuals failed to emphasize the racial dimensions of Genesis 9:20–27 ...
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... intellectual and moral justifications provided for antebellum slavery and postbellum ... proslavery and prosegregation arguments. Many examples of this continuity ... intellectuals who mentored Palmer rejected Genesis 9's application to ...
... intellectual and moral justifications provided for antebellum slavery and postbellum ... proslavery and prosegregation arguments. Many examples of this continuity ... intellectuals who mentored Palmer rejected Genesis 9's application to ...
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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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