The curse of Ham as a tool of missionary propaganda. Part 2: geographical knowledge and missionary knowledge

Translated from the French Original by Katy Albiston We have shown in a previous post how missionary organisations, which grew alongside colonial expansion in the 19th century, drew on part of the story of the curse of Ham to further their aims in Africa. Ham and his brothers Shem and Japheth were also used in missionary and religious literature to promote a kind of geographical understanding based on Genesis, in which the three sons of Noah populated different regions of the world. This wor...