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The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity: Race, Heathens, and the People of God

The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity: Race, Heathens, and the People of God

Johnson, S.

Hardcover

Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

Religion General Black American StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1403965625
ISBN13: 9781403965622
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Dec 3 2004
Pages: 187
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This monograph is an original study of what is commonly termed the American myth of Ham. It examines black and white Americans' recourse to the biblical character of Ham as a cultural strategy for explaining racial origins. Previous studies in the area have been restricted to associating the Hamitic idea with pro-slavery arguments, whereas the thesis of this project reveals a fundamental irony: black American Christians who reinforced the meanings of illegitimacy by appealing to Ham as the ancestor of the race.

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