Original sentence: However, although the text doesn't actually mention the wife's nationality, Adam Clarke, an 18th century methodist theologian, argued that this should be interpreted to only refer to marriage to a Canaanite woman; in Clarke's opinion, there was an Israelite law instructing that if an Israelite slave had children by a Canannitish woman, those children must be considered as Canaanitish only, and might be sold and bought, and serve for ever.Many racist Americans thus referred to the descendants of black slaves as the children of Ham; throughout history, a a few Christians, like Jerome, even took up the racist notion that black people inherently had a soul as black as [their] body
Edited sentence: However, although the text doesn't actually mention the wife's nationality, Adam Clarke, an 18th century Methodist theologian, argued that this should be interpreted to only refer to marriage to a Canaanite woman; in Clarke's opinion, there was an Israelite law instructing that if an Israelite slave had children by a Canannitish woman, those children must be considered as Canaanitish only, and might be sold and bought, and serve for ever.Many racist Americans thus referred to the descendants of black slaves as the children of Ham; throughout history, a few Christians, like Jerome, even took up the racist notion that black people inherently had a soul as black as [their] body