Frederick Douglass pokes fun at the idea of the Biblical curse of Ham.

Date
1852
Type
Book
Source
Frederick Douglass
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, 6th ed. (London: G. Kershaw and Sons, 1852), 12

Scribe/Publisher
G. Kershaw and Sons
People
Frederick Douglass
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Whether this prophecy is ever fulfilled or not, it is nevertheless plain that a very different-looking class of people are springing up at the south, and are now held in slavery, from those originally brought to this country from Africa; and if their increase do no other good, it will do away the force of the argument, that God cursed Ham, and therefore American slavery is right. If the lineal descendants of Ham are alone to be scripturally enslaved, it is certain that slavery at the south must soon become unscriptural; for thousands are ushered into the world, annually, who, like myself, owe their existence to white fathers, and those fathers most frequently their own masters.

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