The broad ax., 1898-06-25
JoHNsoNsscHoo HISTORY
OF THE NEGRO RACE
IN AMERICA.

IN AMERICA
We have received the above en-
titled book which was written by
Edward A. johnson, LII. B., prin-
cipal Of the Washington school OF
Raleigh, N. c.. It contains q
short sketch Of the negro race in
America from 1919 to 1890. and
With an introduction As to the
origin of the race. We viii re-
produce the ideas which Mr.. John
son sets forth in his work pertain
ing to the curse of Noah:
ssRHE CURSE OF NOAH WAS NOT
DIVINE.
"The following passage of Scrip
ture has been much quoted As an
argument to prove the inferiority
of the negro race. The devil can
quote Scripture, but not always
correctly. And Noah began to be
q husbandman, and he planted .
vineyard: and he drank of the wine,
and was drunken and was uncoy-
cred in his tent, and Ham, the
father of Canaan, saw the naked
ness Of his father, and told his
two brethren without, and Shem
and Japheth took garment and
laid It upon both their shoulders,
and went backward and covered
the nakedness of their father; and
their faces were backward, and
they saw not their fathers naked
ness, and Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger
son had done unto him, and he
said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant
Of servants shall he be unto his
brethren. And he said: Blessed be
the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan
shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japhsth, and he shall
dwell In the tents of Shem, and
Canaan shall be his servant
CATER the food Noah's mission
as a preacher to the people was
over. He so recognized it himself,
and settled himself down with his
family on q vineyard. He got
drunk of the wine he made, and
disgracefully lay in nakedness; on
awakening from his drunken stupor
and learning of Hams acts, he, in
rage, speaks his feelings to Canaan,
Hams son. He was in bad tenn
per at this time, and spoke as one
In such temper in those times
naturally would speak. To say he
was uttering Gods viii would be a
monstrosity-would be to drag the
sacred words of prophecy through
prUfane lips, and make God speak
his viii to man out of the mouth
of drunkard, of whom the Holy
Writ says none can enter the
6ngdom.a A drunken prophet
strikes the mind with ridiculei
Yet, such was Noah, if at all, and
such the character of that prophet
whom biased minds have chosen as
the eKpounder of q curse on the
Negro race. 1t is not strange that
80 few people have championed
the curse theory of the race, when
we think that in so doing they
must at. the same time endorse
Noah's drunkenness.
"But, aside from this, the So
called prophecy of Noah has not
become true, the best evidence of a
prophecy is Its fulfllment
Canaan's descendants have often
conquered, though Noah said they
would not. Goodrich makes the
Canaanites so powerful in the forti-
fed cities of All and Jericho, the
direct descendants of Canaan. They
were among the most powerful
people of olden times. They and
their kindred built up Egypt,
Phenicia, the mother of the alpha
bet, and Nineyeh and Babylon, the
two most wonderful of ancient
cities. The Jews, Gods chosen
people, were enslayed by the kim
dred of Canaan both in Egypt and
Babylon. Melchizedek king of
Righteousness), sacred character
of the Old Testament, was q
Cansanite. So, rather than being
q race of slaves, Is Noah predicted, !
the Cansanitish people have been
the greatest people of the earth. |
The great nations of antiquity |
were IN and around Eastern Africa
and WeAtern Asia, in which is |
located Mount Ararat, supposed to |
be the spot on which the ark |
rested after the food. These ma