[aruanan]

The Confederates never caught on to the fact that there is more in the Bible than "curse of Canaan"

Curse of Canaan? There was a curse of Cain and some, like Mormons, have referred to the offspring of Ham (blacks) as being cursed for the sin of their father in having looked upon and mocked a naked, drunken, and passed-out Noah.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Curse of Canaan the son of Ham, found in Genesis 9:25 and used by some Southern preachers as a biblical justification for their institution of slavery:

"And (Noah) said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren"

The fact that Canaan only encompassed the early inhabitants of Palestine and not the African Cushite race was missed by the slavery apologists.