The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2003 Goldenberg), book

The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2003) is a book by David M. Goldenberg.

Editions and translations

Published in Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Table of contents

Biblical Israel : the land of Kush -- Biblical Israel : the people of Kush -- Postbiblical Israel : black Africa -- Postbiblical Israel : black Africans -- The color of women -- The color of health -- The colors of mankind -- The colored meaning of Kushite in postbiblical literature -- Evidence for black slaves in Israel -- Was Ham black? -- "Ham sinned and Canaan was cursed?" -- The curse of Ham -- The curse of Cain -- The new world order : humanity by physiognomy -- Jewish views of black Africans and the development of anti-black sentiment in western thought -- When is a Kushite not a Kushite? Cases of mistake identity -- Kush/Ethiopia and India.

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