Theodore Weld criticizes use of Canaan lore to justify slavery.
Theodore D. Weld, "Is slavery from above or beneath?" The Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine 1, (April 1837): 296
many a slaveholder has found "cursed be Canaan" a poor drug to stupify a throbbing conscience—a mocking lullaby, vainly wooing slumber to unquiet tossings, that like the troubled sea, can find no rest, and screaming "peace, be still," where God makes war, and breaks his thunders.