Slavery and the biblical curse of Ham. In Noah’s Curse, Stephen Haynes provides an in-depth look at how the oft-cited biblical “curse of Ham” or “curse of Canaan” was used in the American South to ...

(RNS) — We share the heritage of the Bible, which has been used to inspire and at times to subjugate both groups. (RNS) — On this week when we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., and with ...

Hexes and jinxes, maledictions, imprecations, anathema, damnation, fukú. Avada Kedavra, cursed be Canaan, Macbeth, “good luck” and screw you. Curses are versatile fictions, foundational to myth and ...

In The Curse of Ham, scholar David M. Goldenberg argues that “the single greatest justification for Black slavery for more than a thousand years” came from the pages of the Bible itself. Strikingly, ...

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