Hamites

Why? Because he went against the, uh, the curse, "Arur K'naan Eved Yehudim," uh, that so-called Ham's curse, which by the way wasn't just a religious justification for slavery, it was the religious justification for apartheid.

The i- the idea that the, the descendants of Ham, the Hamitic peoples, that's the Blacks.

Of course, the, the...

I, I wonder, uh, do, do any people who ever felt that, uh, when anesthesia was invented, did they feel that then women could not take anesthesia when, uh, they, uh, gave birth because there's a curse, "In pain you shall give birth"? [laughs] Or how about, does that mean a man, you couldn't use a tractor because, uh, I mean, i- i- is, is a curse, uh, d- destiny or is a curse, uh, that you can't get over it? I mean, they're very strange.

In terms of biblical lineage, indigenous peoples, for example, would be more correctly associated with the descendants of Japheth, another of Noah's sons, with some scholars suggesting that the tribes who inhabited the more distant regions of the Middle East, such as the peoples of Togarmah, traditionally associated with populations from Asia Minor and Europe, have a closer origin in this lineage.

This genealogical separation is important because it highlights the significant differences between Semitic and Hamitic peoples in the biblical tradition, with the descendants of Ham generally linked to African peoples, while the Semites, including the Israelites, are associated with other regions.

On the other hand, the Ethiopian Jews, also known as Beta Israel, represent a special case in the context of this discussion.

While Ethiopian Jews have a strong Jewish heritage, this is due to their lineage from Cush, meaning their ancestry is closer to the Hamitic peoples rather than the Semitic ones.

The history of Ethiopian Jews is complex and involves a long tradition of migration and isolation, with many studies suggesting that the Kingdom of Aksum in Ethiopia was an important center for Jews of ancient origin, who may have settled in the region over two thousand years ago.

Ethiopian Jews are often described as having Cushitic origins, a direct reference to the ancient kingdom of Cush, which was a power in the Nubian region, now located in Sudan.

The Bible traditionally associates Africans with Ham and his sons Cush, Mizraim, and Put, while the Israelites are described as descendants of Shem, another son of Noah.

This distinction between the lineages of Shem and Ham is important as it reflects the biblical understanding of the division of peoples and lands after the flood.

But within a few decades of the original edition of Webster's Dictionary, a different sense of the word race was introduced that was explained as an ethnographer's term, and this was a series of much larger divisions of the human race.

One possible division that an ethnographer might work with in the mid-19th century would be Semitic, Hamitic, and Japhetic.

So Semitic would be Arabs and, of course, Jews, Japhetic would be white Europeans, and Hamitic would be Black Africans.

I believe Oriental peoples would be considered part of the Semitic group, but I'm not sure because there is a sense in which some of this is pseudoscience.

Well, race in those broad categories is one of the things with which Stone Choir is obsessed.

In other words, Canaan is already in view even before the story involving Ham and the nakedness of his father, Noah.

So it does seem that at the outset, the Holy Spirit's focus is specifically on Canaan, and the curse on Canaan is fulfilled when the Israelites, having slaughtered those Canaanites whom they are going to slaughter, enslave the rest.

"A slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers." But note, other Hamitic peoples do not fall under the same curse.