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	Curse of Ham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Curse of Ham (also called the curse of Canaan) refers to the curse that Noah placed upon Canaan (the son of Ham) after Ham saw Noah naked because of drunkenness in his tent.
		The curse of Ham in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
		Brigham Young, the church's president, was a vocal advocate of the doctrine that people of African ancestry were under the curse of Ham, and that this curse was a rationalization for slavery and societal bans on interracial marriage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curse_of_Ham (1600 words)

	Hamitic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of Ham's four sons, Canaan fathered the Canaanites; Mizraim the Egyptians; Cush the Cushites and Phut Phutites.
		Noah curses Ham and Canaan, Cush's brother, saying that he and his descendants would be a "servant of servants".
		Again, the depiction of the "sons of Ham" as cursed, "flened" by their sins suited the ideological interests of the European elite; especially as the principal enemy of Christendom was Islam, which dominated North Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamitic (1288 words)

	CurseHam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The curse is precisely limited to the descendants of Ham's fourth son, Canaan.
		And by a strange quirk of history the language of the cursed Canaanites was adopted as both for the language of the Old Testament and the language of modern Israel.
		The so-called curse of Ham should be retrieved from crankish misuse by racists.
	www.brow.on.ca /Articles/CurseHam.html (2458 words)

	Curse of Ham son of Noah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, Ham's brothers were honorable; they demonstrated respect and decency to their father, as it was not something to amuse them-selves with and snigger about in a seamy way.
		The curse on Ham's son Canaan was to be a servant of servants.
		The Canaanites were not cursed in their intelligence or physical features it was in the area of occult and depravity that they were perverted.
	www.worldgospelcollege.net /Elijah/noa.html (1085 words)

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		For instance, antebellum advocates of the curse included well-trained and respected professionals, including physicians, lawyers, politicians, clergymen and professors; these men were, relatively speaking, well-educated; and while it is impossible to ascertain their motives in writing about the curse, they appear as sincere on this topic as on the others they discussed.
		Ham, the son of Noah, broke the first command on the second table, by scorning and deriding his father, the legal consequences of which seems to be death of his body, or the forfeiture of it for the benefit of others.
		An article entitled "The Curse of Ham and the Mark of Cain" appearing in the Southern Presbyterian Review in 1850 averred that "Ham had offended by exposing the nakedness of his father, Noah" and that Canaan was singled out for malediction because he participated in Ham’s offense.
	jsr.as.wvu.edu /honor.htm (11710 words)

	New Wine E Church Archive - The Curse of Ham? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This teaching, that "fls are cursed" with the "curse of Ham" (mentioned in Genesis 9:25) is sited by some well meaning Christians because they are unaware that this notion is a false teaching and they might have never been exposed to the fallacies of it's argument.
		Ham was NOT cursed although this teaching is mis-called "the curse of Ham".
		However it is noteworthy to state that the sin of Ham, which some say is as innocuous as his ridicule of Noah's drunken, naked state to the sin of Ham having sex with Noah's wife, it does bring to the table some factors to consider for proper interpretation.
	www.newwineechurch.org /Archive-TheCurseOfHam.htm (1948 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ham is finally being submissive for the purpose of the curse that was put upon them.
		Ham's deed was so evil that he will be judged at the white throne judgment.
		Ham had witnessed the world mocking his father and it should have been dealt with at the flood.
	home.comcast.net /~neirr/unravel.html (1662 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's up with the biblical story of drunken Noah? (Part 2)
		The earliest commentators looked at the story in context--the curse on Canaan, followed by the table of genealogies and then the story of the Tower of Babel--and concluded that the sequence as a whole was meant to explain human differentiation, that is, the different nations, languages, and cultures imposed on mankind by God.
		Ham was also a symbol of sexual transgression (based on interpretations that his offense against Noah was somehow sexual and that he was sexually loose in the Ark).
		Haynes writes, "Noah's curse was a stock weapon in the arsenal of slavery's apologists, and references to Genesis 9 appeared prominently in their publications." For example, J.J. Flourney, writing in 1838, says, "the fls were originally designed to vassalage by the Patriarch Noah." Even many fls accepted this as their God-ordained state.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mdrunknoah2.html (2364 words)

	race, color, Noah, Ham, Black, curse, races, origin of races
		The Scripture do not say why Canaan was cursed and not Ham, some suggest that since Ham had already been blessed, 16 he could not have been cursed by his father; thus the curse had to fall on Ham's sons.
		Ham was punished in his son, and the punishment was clearly from God.
		The curse on Canaan was from God and not on Ham or his other three sons (and therefore was not on the people of Africa).
	www.jpdawson.com /races.html (3436 words)

	Negro Slavery and the Myth of Ham's Curse
		Negro Slavery and The Myth of Ham's Curse
		The actual curse was on Canaan the oldest son of Ham.
		Even though Noah had pronounced a terrible curse on Canaan, the curse did not apply to the fls of Africa who were taken as slaves to the Americas because those fls were not descendants of the Canaanites.
	www.geocities.com /athens/oracle/5862/slavery.html (3527 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's up with the biblical story of drunken Noah? (Part 1)
		Ham's sin is thus immodesty, lack of filial respect, and failure to take action to protect his father.
		Ham had sex on the Ark, contrary to God's command, and Canaan was conceived from that disobedience.
		Since Ham's offense was lack of respect for or humiliation of his father, there is some nasty irony that the punishment involves lack of respect for or humiliation of his son.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mdrunknoah.html (1779 words)

	Jewish Origin of the Curse of Ham
		To Ham himself he could do no harm, for God had conferred a blessing upon Noah and his three sons as they departed from the ark. Therefore he put the curse upon the last-born son of the son that had prevented him from begetting a younger son than the three he had.
		As Ham was made to suffer requital for his irreverence, so Shem and Japheth received a reward for the filial, deferential way in which they took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and walking backward, with averted faces, covered the nakedness of their father.
		Naked the descendants of Ham, the Egyptians and Ethiopians, were led away captive and into exile by the king of Assyria, while the descendants of Shem, the Assyrians, even when the angel of the Lord burnt them in the camp, were not exposed, their garments remained upon their corpses unsinged.
	www.blacksandjews.com /CurseofHam.html (3437 words)

	Part IV Re-reading Ham
		When the curse was fully reawakened in the segregation debates of the 1950s and 60s, the battle seemingly won by abolitionists and biblical critics had to be fought by anti-segregationists wielding many of the same religious and historical arguments.
		Given the curse tradition's long and complex history, it is surely naive to regard it as a relic of history, or to believe that humanity has outgrown biblical justifications for conquest, servitude and oppressive institutions.
		Ham may not be "the scapegoat for all" (as Girard claims for Jesus), but he is an instructive victim for cultures affected by racism and the biblical myths that sustain it.
	www.religion.emory.edu /affiliate/COVR/Haynes.html (9765 words)

	Black Mother: 'I feel as if my son is under curse of Ham' - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The curse of Ham is from Genesis 9: 18-27.
		Ham is the father of the Negro race and was cursed by Noah for disrespecting him.
		The curse declared that Ham and his descendants a servant unto servants shall he be unto his brethren.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=79880 (1089 words)

	Race Matters - Noah's Curse Is Slavery's Rationale
		He is publishing the results of his research next month in "The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity and Islam" (Princeton University Press).
		When Noah finds out what happened, he curses Ham's son Canaan, saying he shall be "a servant of servants." Among the many questions attached to this tale are what Ham did wrong.
		Haynes writes: "Scholars of history and religion alike have failed to comprehend that pro-slavery Southerners were drawn to Genesis 9:20-27 because it resonated with their deepest cultural values." Too often, he writes, historians have a superficial knowledge of the Bible, and scholars of religion have a limited knowledge of Southern culture.
	www.racematters.org /noahscurseslaverysrationale.htm (1237 words)

	Race and racism in the schoolbooks in the Belgian Congo
		Ham is the father of the Blacks and those wich resemble to them; and Japheth is the father of the White and of those with whom they are related".
		If some lines further one reads that the cursed Ham is the father of the fl race, the conclusion comes automatically that without the curse of the Blacks being explicitly professed.
		The myth of the curse of Ham, related to the theory of the origin of the human races according to the descendance of three sons of Noah, gave origin to the theory of the almost divine curse of the fl race.
	abbol.com /commonfiles/docs_projecten/colschoolbks/raceandracismEG.htm (3498 words)

	LITR 5535 American Romanticism UHCL 2005 sample student research project
		In Genesis, Noah put a curse on his grandson Canaan after his son Ham saw him in a naked drunken state which Noah had perceived to be a sexual situation.
		Ham’s descendants, with dark skin, came perceived to be scorched by the sun, and a mark of Noah’s curse.
		The allusion to the curse on Ham was still being reported in the writings of Augustine, Origen, and Ambrose of Milan, as well as references to Ham and his descendants in Islamic literature in 650 AD.
	coursesite.cl.uh.edu /HSH/Whitec/LITR/5535/models/2005/projects/rp05toalson.htm (3681 words)

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		Fredericksen, Jordan, Peterson -- insofar as it pertains to the pre-eighteenth century notions of Ham, slavery, and African identity is faulty.
		Ham was identified with Asia and Africa, with slavery and with empire, and with European rustic serfs and with the Mongols, among many other options.
		It is not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that a clear and consistent claim that the so-called curse of Ham justifies enslavement of Black Africans emerges.
	www.h-net.org /~judaic/digests/12-12-1995 (1324 words)

	Nigeriaworld Letters & Viewpoints (Is Africa's curse self-imposed?)
		My earliest recollection of Africa's woes being attributed to a curse was when it was said that we are descendants of Ham, the son of Noah, whom his father cursed.
		Noah, his three sons (Shem, Ham and Japheth) and their wives are the only humans who survived the Great Flood.
		If one believes this postulate, then even though the Western media has not broadcast it as they have "Ham's curse", one sees that Africans are not the only ones with a purported curse on them.
	nigeriaworld.com /feature/publication/ibanga/0610100.html (1741 words)

	Probe Ministries - Race and Racial Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sadly, one of the most destructive false teachings supposedly based on the Bible is the so-called "curse on Ham." Ham was one of Noah's three sons (along with Shem and Japheth).
		This curse was not the origin of the fl race or fl racial characteristics.
		Although the idea of "the curse on Ham" has been dying a well- deserved death, it is still important to remember that not so long ago people were misinterpreting a biblical passage to justify their racism and discrimination.
	www.probe.org /content/view/832/0 (2252 words)

	Jesus Christ Creator - Chapter 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yet he wanted to curse Ham and all his descendants, so he placed the curse on the youngest son of Ham, which reverts back a generation, covering Ham and all of Ham's children.
		The curse of the youngest son Canaan covers all his brothers and comes back a generation to his father Ham, but it protects the two other sons of Noah.
		The descendants of Ham are probably the oriental and colored peoples, for a careful study of history reveals that the descendants of Ham are those who have built the major cities - the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Babylonians and the Assyrians.
	www.parentcompany.com /jesus_christ_creator/jcc-3.htm (7136 words)

	Christian Attitudes & Racial Problems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He found that even fl people believed this poorly thought out and wrongly applied explanation of the "Curse." The main motivation for writing the book was to set the record straight by showing that the "Curse," though real enough, was fulfilled millenniums ago and was not related to Africans of any color.
		The true exposition of the "Curse of Canaan." (there is no "Curse of Ham" in the Bible) may also be found in some other exegetical studies but probably not in the detail and clarity with which it is treated here.
		The "Curse" prophetically states that it would be fulfilled in the subjection and enslavement of the Canaanite people by two separate branches of Humanity,-- the Semitic and the Japhetic branches.
	www.ao.net /~fmoeller/racialpr.htm (525 words)

	Are black people the result of a curse on Ham? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The belief that the skin color of fl people is a result of a curse on Ham and his descendants is nowhere taught in the Bible.
		It is traditionally believed that the African nations are largely Hamitic, because the Cushites (Cush was a son of Ham: Genesis 10:6) are thought to have lived where Ethiopia is today.
		Genesis suggests that the dispersion was probably along family lines, and it may be that Ham's descendants were on average darker than, say, Japheth's.
	www.onehumanrace.com /docs/curse_ham.asp?vPrint=1 (304 words)

	EPM Resource - Are Black People Cursed? THE CURSE OF HAM
		Because Ham was the father of fl people, and because he and his descendants were cursed to be slaves because of his sin against Noah, some Christians said, "Africans and their descendants are destined to be servants, and should accept their status as slaves in fulfillment of biblical prophecy." (4)
		Never mind, of course, that the Bible says that Canaan, Ham's son, was cursed, not Ham himself.
		Never mind that the curse on Canaan and his descendants-"Now there, you are cursed, and none of you shall be freed from being slaves"-finds its most obvious fulfillment in the ongoing defeat and subjugation of Canaan by Israel (Josh.
	www.epm.org /articles/ham.html (1070 words)

	Ham. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
		‡ Egypt was traditionally called “the Land of Ham,” and Ham was considered to be the ancestor of the Egyptians and of all African peoples south of Egypt.
		‡ The “curse of Ham” refers to the biblical story in which Ham, seeing his father drunk and naked, refused to turn away as his two brothers did.
		When Noah awoke, he cursed Ham and his son Canaan, supposedly causing a darker pigmentation in their descendants.
	www.bartleby.com /59/1/ham.html (209 words)

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