Joseph highlights Lemuel Hayne's criticism of Canaan myth.
John Saillant, Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 32
For "now," Haynes declared, "our glorious hygh priest hath visably appear'd in the flesh, and hath Establish'd a more glorious Oeconomy.". . . "It is plain beyond all doubt," Haynes concluded, "that at the coming of Christ, this curse that was upon Canaan, was taken off."