Curse of Ham - Michael Evans

In leadership class we were discussing Frederick Douglass and his attempt to free slaves in America after he himself escaped and became free. Important things to look at when examining this include problems he faced in this task. One of them was, in fact, religion. Many slaveholders in the South used religion as a means to support slavery. In the gospel, they claimed, God cursed Ham, Noah’s brother and purportedly the father of all black Africans. Because God cursed Ham, all of his offspring carried that curse and thus were justifiably enslaved. The concept of the curse of Ham seems to imply that based on the geographical, certain people are meant to be inferior to others. If that were the case, however, I would think that God would have separated these people geographically to begin with instead of setting them all on one large landmass as Pangea was. Instead, God did not separate them all and instead let them mingle together as they wished on one land until it was separated. Perhaps it was separated in a way that the black Africans all ended up together on the same continent as a part of God’s plan. Regardless, it is evident that this idea seems to indicate discrimination based on geographic location.