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Subject: Re: Ham and Canaan
Message-ID: <Jul.20.02.30.55.1990.17165@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 90 06:30:58 GMT
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In article <Jul.18.04.50.24.1990.15864@athos.rutgers.edu>, gt5599d@prism.gatech.edu (gt5599d TOLBERT,JASON ALAN) writes:
> Someone once told me that Ham was the ancestor of Black people of this
> Earth and that he was cursed.  Could someone tell me more about this?
> 
> TOLBERT,JASON ALAN

   According to Gen. 9, the 'curse of Ham' is that his descendants would be
servants.  Slave owners claimed blacks were the children of Ham and thereby
justified the enslavement of blacks as being the will of God.

    Meredith
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