---
title: 'The Curse Was Not on Ham'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Ernest Trice Thompson'
date: 1955-03-14
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
- 'Hermeneutics'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 9'
- 'Genesis 6'
- 'Genesis 12'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/thompson-1955-the-curse-was-not-on-ham
---

# The Curse Was Not on Ham

1955 Presbyterian debate: contributors defend racial segregation using Genesis (Noah, Ham, Babel); critics counter these as misinterpretations that mask sin and tradition.

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