A quick look at one of the weirdest traditions from Genesis, the Curse of Ham, and how it factored into patristic demonology as well as white supremacist Christianity of the 19th century antebellum South.

Thanks to Ernest Mitchell for the Zora Neale Hurston assist.

Sources:

Stephen B. Haynes, Noah’s Curse: The Biblical Justifications of American Slavery : https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0195142799.001.0001/acprof-9780195142792

David M. Goldenberg, Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691123707/the-curse-of-ham

Augustine, City of God Book XVI: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120116.htm

Origen, Homily XVI, Homilies on Genesis and Exodus: Homilies on Genesis and Exodus. Catholic University of America Press, 1982, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt32b3pv.

Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/0050-0150,_Pseudo_Clemens,_Recognitions_[Schaff],_EN.pdf